Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Abbeytown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeytown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50135, -9.05110
- SMR number
- GA042-001001-
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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
Associated with a field system (GA042-001005-). Amongst the earthworks noted during aerial reconnaissance in January 1985 (ASGAP 211:37, 42) was a strongly curving fosse-like feature to N of the possible church (GA042-001002-). Though evidently much defaced and apparently overlain by the field system, it appears to comprise a shallow fosse with intermittent traces of a stony bank along its inner, or S, edge. Roughly centred on the church, it is visible from WNW through N to NE (D c. 140m). This is probably the same feature as the 'large arc of [a] ... cashel type wall' recorded by Higgins and McHugh (1990, 66-8) to NE of the church. They describe it as 'the remains of a substantial stone wall ... maximum height 0.33-0.40 metres' with traces of an external 'wall facing'.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.