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An Choill Bheag Íochtair, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, An Choill Bheag Íochtair, 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
An Choill Bheag Íochtair
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rosshill Abbey (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Rosshill Abbey (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.55419, -9.36849
SMR number
GA027-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Near centre of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA027-034002-). A ruinous medieval church (E-W; L 21m, Wth 6.4m ext.) with two doorways and a broken window in S wall and a trabeate doorway in W gable. There is a small window in N wall, also a broken doorway at its E end giving access to a ruined sacristy. Ivy obscures the 'modern belfry' and window noted by OS Letters in W gable (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 36). There is a late dividing wall, with blocked doorway in the interior. (Purefoy Colles 1870, 268)

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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