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About 75m SE of St Patrick's church (GA040-013001-). This church, correctly Teampall na Naomh, is a nave and chancel church (E-W; L 10.15m, Wth 6.47m) with a Romanesque doorway in W wall, a plain chancel arch, round-headed windows in E and S walls, and an external projecting corbel at NE corner of chancel. A decorated cross-slab (GA040-013008-) is incorporated into W end of S wall of nave. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 48-9, 50-3; Fahey 1901b, 239-40; Leask 1955, Vol. 1, 110-11)
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 revised upload: 30 January 2018
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 412.
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