What is recorded here

Eight metres of collapsed masonry at Cill Comhla may have been a small stone church, standing beside an L-shaped room and a rectangular drystone building where a póirín still cuts through the east wall. These are not grand ruins but meagre ones, the kind of place where prayer and domestic life blurred before either had a name worthy of remembering.

Associated with the early ecclesiastical remains at Cill Comhla (GA110-019001-). Three structures are visible: (a (GA110-019002-)) a line of collapsed masonry (E-W: L 8m), which Waddell (1976, 88) tentatively speculates could be the meagre remains of a small stone church; (b (GA110-019003-)) to SW, an L-shaped structure (NE-SE: L 4m, Wth 2.8m); and (c (GA110-019008-)) to W, a rectangular drystone structure (L 4.56m, Wth 2m). Its N half was best preserved and a póirín was built into its E wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 February 2016

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