Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gooreen, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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.