Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Demesne,Townparks (4th Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demesne,Townparks (4th Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51634, -8.84780
- SMR number
- GA029-068001-
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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
In the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----) close to S bank of the River Nanny, it straddles NE end of Bishop St. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a curving boundary, its line can be traced from S through W to NNE, indicating a roughly subrectangular enclosure (N-S 100m, E-W >100m). To S of Bishop St., its line is preserved in property boundaries, but to N of the street it survives in the curving axis of an old laneway along which the td. and B. boundaries run. This lane, flanked on either side by high mortared stone walls, probably preserves the old street plan prior to the early 18th C when the Bishop's Palace was constructed (Bence-Jones 1978, 276) and the line of Bishop St. was probably laid out. The interior, which is now occupied by modern properties, is generally flat and contains the site of a possible church (GA029-068002-).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical residenceunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.