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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Creevaghbaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Creevaghbaun, 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
Creevaghbaun
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.49225, -8.76774
SMR number
GA044-047001-

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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

On a slight E-facing slope in pastureland, immediately SW of the td. boundary. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1970 (CUCAP BDT 81) revealed a curving cropmark in the field surface immediately outside S wall of the roughly rectangular graveyard. All that is visible on the ground surface are faint traces of a ploughed-out bank (Wth 9-12m). This appears to form a continuation of the curve in E wall of the graveyard, suggesting the former presence of a large enclosure (NE-SW c. 80m) encircling the church (GA044-047002-). Its line is thus preserved from NE to ESE in the curving section of the graveyard wall, and from SE to SW by the cropmark. A holy well (GA044-073001-) and a 'Sweat Kiln' (GA044-073002-) lie 100m to E.

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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