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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Abbeytown, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Abbeytown, 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
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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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

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

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

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