R.C. Chapel

Immediately NW of a chapel (GA088-008001-). This church was built in 1824 to replace the earlier chapel and was itself abandoned in 1914 (Egan 1960, 172-3, 119). The visible remains consist of the lower courses of the walls (H c. 1m) of a rectangular building (E-W; L 17m, Wth 12.5m), now much overgrown. It appears to have been deliberately levelled since Egan (ibid., 172-3) wrote, as he was able to provide a full description of the church. The surviving architectural features comprise a doorway in W wall, immediately to S of which is the inscribed holy water font from the earlier chapel. A number of window opes, some blocked, are also visible in N and S walls and in E gable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010