Kiltartan

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Location
(53°5′35″N, 8°48′24″W)
Site Location
Kiltartan
National Grid Reference
M 46 05
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Galway now Galway
Dedication
medieval not confirmed
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Tessa Garton

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Feature Sets
Description

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.

History

Not recorded in Gwynn and Hadcock.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

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