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Middlequarter, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Middlequarter, 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
Middlequarter
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Aittighe Guairim
Latest-edition OS map
Aittighe Guairim (Site of)
Coordinates
53.62428, -10.20510
SMR number
GA009B011----

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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)
  • 1841 · 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 a rise overlooking Bunnamullen Bay, Inishbofin, to N. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927b, Vol. 1, 484) refer to 'Ait Tighe Guairim i.e. the site of the House of Guairim [who] is said to have been contemporary with Saint Colman'. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure but evidently removed by time of 2nd ed. (1899), when the words 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives. The site of Guairim's Castle (GA099B019----) lies to S. (Hardiman 1846, 116)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

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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