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Clonbern, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Clonbern, 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
Clonbern
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Clonbern Church in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Clonbern Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.55687, -8.65613
SMR number
GA031-016----

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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

In flat farmland within the former demesne of Clonbern Park. Probably the site of the medieval parish church which, according to Knox (1903, 293), was called 'Kilbrenan'. The remains comprise a very poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L >6.3m, Wth c. 6.4). Only the ivy-covered E gable (H 2m) survives to any height along with short grassed-over lengths of N and S side-walls. The subrectangular graveyard also contains a large early 19th-C rectangular vault (L 6m, Wth 4m) dedicated to the Egan family and a remarkable circular metal mausoleum dedicated to the Browne family. Two holy wells (GA031-017----, GA031-018----) may be associated. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 101-2)

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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