Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Straid, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Straid
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66656, -8.54931
- SMR number
- GA006-122005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On flat ground in a house cluster called Templetogher, through which flows a stream on a roughly SSW-NNE axis. The visible remains comprise a group of monuments of ecclesiastical character centred on a church (GA006-122003-) and graveyard (GA006-122004-) on E bank of the stream. Immediately outside the graveyard to W, a gently curving low earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2m, H 0.4m max.) and traces of an external fosse are visible from SW through W to NW. This is possibly the remains of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. There is a bullaun (GA006-122002-) and a holy well (GA006-122006-) on W bank of the stream, 55m NNW and 85m N of the church respectively. The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) also shows 'St. Patrick's Shrine' (GA006-122001-), 140m to NNE. Situated on W bank of the stream, it now comprises a statue of the saint, and a water-filled trough, set in a circular concrete surround erected in 1962. Finally, there is a 19th-C corn mill and kiln on the bank of the stream to W of the church.
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.