Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Doire Fhada Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Fhada Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43368, -9.85952
- SMR number
- GA050-008----
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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
To S of road close to seashore on inner reaches of Cloonisle Bay. It consists of two set boulders (H c. 0.5m, c. 0.3m), 2.8m apart. Said to be the grave of a priest who was caught and killed here, having swum across from Toombeola Friary (GA050-026001-) on opposite shore of bay, when it was attacked by soldiers. The spot is called Corr na mBráithre (info T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.