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Bunowen More, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Bunowen More, 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
Bunowen More
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.41451, -10.11010
SMR number
GA049-015001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

To ESE of Ballindoon Church (GA049-014----). A small, poorly built 18th-C chapel (ENE-WSW; L 7.4m, Wth 5.2m ext.) of the Geoghegan family, builders of the nearby mansion. Dedicated to St Flannan. There is plain doorway in W wall and a possible blocked doorway in S, a flat-headed window in E wall, two others in N and S walls. A graveslab lies within, and a small unenclosed graveyard, indicated on 1st and 2nd (1897) eds of OS 6-inch map, lies immediately to NE; possibly a CBG. (Killanin 1954, 93)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

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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