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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Cloonsheen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, 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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.54219, -9.03233
SMR number
GA028-012004-

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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

On a slight rise in flat pastureland overlooking bogland to W. A wide shallow curving fosse (Wth 3.5m) encloses a roughly circular area (D 97m). It is clearly visible from N through E to SSE, being partly water-filled at time of visit. No trace of it survives from SSE to SSW where it is overlain by a modern field boundary. From SSW to NNW it is also visible, though somewhat narrower and its course apparently straightened by later hands. There is an ecclesiastical building (GA028-012001-) and a CBG (GA028-012003-) in the interior. Two holy wells (GA028-010----, GA028-013----) lie 750m to NNE and 490m to SSE respectively, along the approach roads to the site. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 26; 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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