Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Cashel (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63038, -8.61479
- SMR number
- GA006-030002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a somewhat convoluted passage, the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, vol. 1, 80) record a local tradition that 'there was a monastery to the east of this old grave yard of Bweeounagh [GA006-030----] ... traces of the foundations of a small abbey called An Mainistir, are pointed out a short distance to the east of the old church' (ibid.). No visible surface traces were noted.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.