Kiltartan, Galway

I Location

Site Location: Kiltartan
National Grid Reference: 14M 46 05
County: Galway
Dedication: not confirmed
Type of building/monument: Church (ruin)

II General Description

: Exterior, S window.

: Exterior, N window.

: Exterior, S window.

: Exterior, N window.

Ruined rectangular nave, ivy-covered, with walls and gables mostly intact, used as a graveyard. Plain, narrow N and S windows, round-headed, with one recessed order on exterior, and deeply splayed on interior. Some diagonal tooling visible on N window. Pointed chamfered S doorway, 15thc. E window. 15thc. tomb niche in N wall at E end contains two loose stones, one of no significance, the other moulded but badly damaged.

VI Loose Sculpture

(i) Fragment

: Loose sculpture, moulded stone, fragment.

Located in the sedilia on the N side of the church. Large block of sandstone with quartz inclusions with deep grooves on two sides.

Dimensions

h.	0.54 m
w.	0.24 m
d.	0.23 m.

VII History

Not recorded in Gwynn and Hadcock.

VIII Comments/Opinions

The windows appear to be Romanesque. The fragment of moulded stone is too damaged for analysis of style or date.