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Building

Shantallow (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Shantallow, 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
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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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

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

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

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