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Cathedral

Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cathedral, Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam), 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
Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Marys Cathedral
Latest-edition OS map
ST. MARYS CATHEDRAL
Coordinates
53.51373, -8.85497
SMR number
GA029-179001-

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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

At S end of high St., in the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----). It is now sandwiched between the 19th-C Protestant cathedral of St Mary and the 14th-C Synod Hall (GA029-179002-). A Romanesque nave and chancel church built in the late 12th C (Clyne 1988, 90). The nave was destroyed by fire in 1767 (ibid.) but the chancel, square in plan (L c. 5.5m), with its fine barrel-vaulted roof survives. This was subsequently used as a porch for the adjoining Synod Hall. A Nat. Mon., the surviving architectural features include an outstanding ornate Romanesque chancel arch of six orders supported by coulumns, three decorated round-headed Romanesque windows in E gable, and another in S wall (Leask 1977, 153-4). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 98-100; Harbison 1975, 101-2; Stalley 1981)

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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