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Ecclesiastical site

Cloonsheen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical site, Cloonsheen, 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
Cloonsheen
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Gortnabishaun Abbey (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Gortnabishaun Abbey (Site of)
Coordinates
53.54219, -9.03233
SMR number
GA028-012001-

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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

Just S of the centre of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA028-012004-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small roofed rectangular building, aligned N-S. All that survives is a faint rectangular platform (N-S; L 11.3m, Wth 5.4m) clearly defined only at NE corner where traces of a wall foundation (H 0.6m) are visible; elsewhere a scarp and/or small cairns of earth and stone mark its limits. No architectural features are visible. A large chunk of crudely coursed mortared limestone masonry lying 25m to E may have come from this building. A CBG (GA028-012003-) lies immediately to SE. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 385)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).

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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