Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Shantallow (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shantallow (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gobbaun Seers House (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gobbaun Seers House (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.47825, -8.80781
- SMR number
- GA044-089----
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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
In grassland immediately W of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA044-090001-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building and on 3rd ed. (1932) as an unroofed oval structure (N-S c. 10m). No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, it was constructed of stone which was reused to build a nearby house. Given the ecclesiastical associations of An Gobán Saor (O hOgain 1991), this may well have been an ecclesiastical building.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Stepping stonesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.