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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Cummer,Glebe (Cummer ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Cummer, Glebe, 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
Cummer,Glebe (Cummer ED)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46139, -8.89600
SMR number
GA043-085001-

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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

On a slight rise in gently undulating farmland. The slightly curving line of the byroad to S of the church (GA043-085002-), along which the td. boundary runs, appears to preserve part of the line of a large subcircular enclosure (N-S >100m, E-W >85m) from SW to W. From W through N to NNE, its continuation can be traced in a faint curving earthen bank (Wth c. 4m, H 0.5m) in the field to N of the church. The latter, almost centrally placed within the enclosure, is surrounded by a roughly rectangular graveyard within which is a fine burial vault with a corbelled roof. It is dedicated to one 'Edmundos de Burgo' and dated 1730 (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 129-30). The site of a spring well called 'Corr' (ibid.) is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) 45m WNW of the church, just within the line of the enclosure.

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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