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Gatehouse

Ross (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Gatehouse, Ross, 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
Ross (Clare By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Gateway (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.47741, -9.13174
SMR number
GA041-047001-

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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

Some 218m S of Ross Errilly Friary (GA041-047----), on the line of a causeway (see GA041-047003-). Named 'Gateway (in ruins)' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted c. 80m to the N of its actual location. All that survives is a section of a mortared stone wall (L >9m, Wth 1.15m, H c. 3m), aligned SE-NW, in which the outlines of a number of blocked opes are visible. A modern wall abuts it at SE end. According to Fahey (1901, 335-6), this gateway was on the line of 'the enclosing wall and ditch which surrounded the … monastery' (see GA041-047004-).

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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 26 July 2018

References

Fahey, J. 1901c Proceedings: Galway excursion. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 305-40.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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