Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Portacarron, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portacarron
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ruin
- Coordinates
- 53.43332, -9.28383
- SMR number
- GA054-061003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In S half of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA054-061001-). Small, much-ruined E. Chr. oratory (E-W; L c. 6.25, Wth c. 3m). No architectural features are visible nor is there any trace of the doorway noted in W wall by Kinahan (1868a, 77). (Killanin 1947, 124)
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.