Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Inis Mhic An Trír, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Mhic An Trír
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tower (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.49927, -9.25042
- SMR number
- GA041-037005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the NE quadrant of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (GA041-037001-), c. 1m to the E of a possible church (GA041-037002-) and separated from the latter by a field wall that incorporates its E wall. Named ‘Tower (in Ruins)’ on the OS 6-inch maps. All that is visible is a collapsed mound of rubble (c. 7.5m N-S; 6m E-W; H at E 1m) which is densely overgrown with nettles and briars. It may be the remains of a building associated with an early monastic site. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 387; Gosling 1993, 98)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 November 2014
The following image has been uploaded: GA041-037005-_02.jpg View of mound of rubble from W
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.