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Enclosure

Gooreen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gooreen, 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
Gooreen
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.53579, -10.16796
SMR number
GA021-017001-

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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

Close to N shore of Omey Island. A much-ruined medieval church (WNW-ESE; L 13.65m, Wth 7.15m) (GA021-017----) on or close to site of 7th-C foundation of St Fechin. Totally sand-covered until an illegal excavation uncovered it in 1981. There is a doorway in N wall and lancet window set off-centre in E gable. The W gable contains a blocked trabeate doorway also set off-centre (info. E. Rynne). The church lies within a rectangular, stone-built enclosure (>19.4m by >8.1m) (GA021-017001-) visible to W and S. This contained burials stratigraphically later than the church. No visible traces found of the graveyard (GA021-018----) marked on OS 6-inch maps 50m to S. For list of other remains on island see index. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 400; Macalister 1896b, 253; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 75, 79)

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: 09 June 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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