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Religious house - Dominican friars

Toombeola, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - Dominican friars, Toombeola, 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
Toombeola
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toombeola Abbey (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Toombeola Abbey (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.43147, -9.86457
SMR number
GA050-026001-

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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 an oval graveyard on seashore at mouth of An Abhainn Mhór. Site of a friary established in 1427 by Dominicans of Athenry (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 230). Destroyed in 16th C and its stones were reputedly used to build the castle at Ballynahinch (GA036-001001-). Reestablished in 18th C: a rectangular building, aligned E-W, appears on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. This has since been destroyed, but a raised area near centre of graveyard may mark its site. Present remains are of a small rectangular building (NNE-SSW; L 8.2m, Wth 4.8m) with doorway in W wall, narrow windows at either end of E wall, and recess in S. Late 16th-C in date according to Killanin (1954, 101) but it and the graveyard are probably 18-19th-C (see Hardiman 1846, 105-6). The site of a holy well is reputed to lie just outside graveyard to WSW. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 126-34)

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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