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Templenagalliaghdoo Church
 

County

Mayo

Coordinates

N 54° 03' 15.66"   W 009° 15' 48.96"

Nearest town

Crossmolina

Grid Ref.

G 17263 12428

Map No.

24

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

18

Date of visit

Wednesday 24 June 2015

GPS Accuracy (m)

3
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Walking north to the nunnery.


This church was built on the site of a previous church founded in the 6th century.
What we see are the remains of an oratory, or a nunnery as the name might suggest.
Templenagalliaghdoo (Teampall na gCailleach Dubh), means The Church of the (Black) Nun.
It's a very small building surrounded by a dry stone wall enclosure.
The oratory measures about 7.70 metres in length and 4.60 metres in width with an entrance in the south-southwest (195°) wall. The walls are about 50 centimetres thick.
The surrounding boundary wall is 17 metres by 23 metres.

About 150 metres south from the oratory there's Errew abbey.


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