Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Meelick (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meelick (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Chapel (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.92522, -9.02193
- SMR number
- MA071-027001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within a rath (MA071-027002-).
A rectangular building (c. 14m NE−SW; 6-7m NW−SE), annotated ‘Chapel (in ruins)’, is indicated in the centre of the rath on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; the building is not shown on the 1931 edition, where the location is marked ‘Chapel (site of)’. No remains of the chapel are visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.