Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
An Choill Bheag íochtair, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Choill Bheag íochtair
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55417, -9.36887
- SMR number
- GA027-034002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a gently undulating area of woodland close to S shore of Lough Mask. Oval enclosure (E-W 200m, N-S 150m) associated with St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 402). Defined by a stone-faced clay and rubble bank (Wth 4-5m, H 0.4m) which has modern entrances at S and WSW. It contains a church (GA027-034----), graveyard (GA027-034001-), cross-inscribed pillar-stone (GA027-034003-) and an inscribed slab (GA027-034004-) (Higgins 1987, 279, 381).
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.