St. Gobnet's Church (Kilgobnet) Innisheer
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St. Gobnet's Church (Kilgobnet) Innisheer

Cill Ghobnait

Church ruin in County Galway, Ireland.

  • AccessNot confirmed
  • National MonumentIn State care
  • DateNot stated
  • FolkloreNone recorded
  • PhotoWikimedia Commons
Inis Oírr, Co. Galway53.06593, -9.52924
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At a glance

  • TypeChurch
  • Recorded sizeE-W; L 3.93m, W 2.73m
  • StatusNational Monument

What to look for

  • East window
  • Graveyard

Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.

Can you visit?

  • No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
  • Ask the landowner before crossing fields, close gates, leave the stones as you find them.Visiting responsibly
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History and description

On N side of island overlooking the shoreline to N. This Nat. Mon. is a conserved E. Chr. church (E-W; L 3.93m, Wth 2.73m) known locally as Cill Ghobnait.

Full archaeological record 172 words

On N side of island overlooking the shoreline to N. This Nat. Mon. is a conserved E. Chr. church (E-W; L 3.93m, Wth 2.73m) known locally as Cill Ghobnait. There is a trabeate doorway in W gable and a round-headed window in E gable. A cross-inscribed stone (GA120-002012-) is visible above the arch of the window. Within the interior, below the window, is an altar with a cross-inscribed slab (GA120-002006-). The letters ST and G on it presumably mean Saint Gobnet. Two bullauns lie to W (GA120-002004-) and SSE (GA120-002005-) of the church. Two plain, rectangular, drystone leachta (GA120-002007-, GA120-002008-) abut its S wall and a third leacht (GA120-002009-) stands 15m to SE in the graveyard (GA120-002002-). Two separate lengths of stony banks extend to NW and S of the church. A clochan (GA120-002003-) c. 25m to the WSW is also associated. The curving graveyard wall, which encloses all these features, may follow the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA120-002011-). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 431-3; Mason 1938, 197-8; Westropp 1895, 272)

References

  • Date of revised upload: 21 January 2016
  • This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 41.

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Compiled by Olive Alcock · Based on the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

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