Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Beagh Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beagh Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.04436, -8.77689
- SMR number
- GA129-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a tree-covered island in Lough Cutra. This rectangular church (int. dims. 10.1m E-W; 4.4m N-S) is poorly preserved. The N and S walls are much collapsed, only a short return of the N wall (L 2.9m; wall Wth 0.62m) extends off the W gable. Both gables survive, the E one is heavily overgrown with ivy. A gap in the S wall indicates the site of the doorway. The only architectural feature visible is a single-light cusped ogee-headed window in the E gable. Traces of an internal dividing wall lie immediately to the E of the doorway.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.