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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Straid, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Straid, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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