Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Abbey (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44098, -8.74300
- SMR number
- GA058-004002-
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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
In the field immediately to the N of Knockmoy Abbey (GA058-004001-). This rectangular building (int. dims. 11.35m E-W; 5.8m N-S; wall T 1-1.1.25m) is constructed of double-faced uncut stones laid down in uneven courses. It is featureless apart from a break (Wth 2m) in the N wall that may mark a doorway. Three walls (H 0.6m) abut the E wall of the building; one is on the line of the N wall (L 3.5m; Wth 0.55m), the second (L 3.6m; Wth 0.65m) is 0.75m to the S of the former and the third (L 4.15m; Wth 0.9m) is on the line of the S wall. Foundation lines of the latter wall continue further to the E (L 8.75m) before turning N (L 3.9m). The building was investigated during the course of excavations at the abbey in 1982 and 1983 in order to determine its age and relationship with the abbey complex (Sweetman 1987, 1-12). The foundations of the walls of the main building were not at all similar to those of a medieval building and the surviving stonework suggested that it was of post-17th century date. The middle and S abutting walls formed a second structure (int. dims. c. 12m E-W; 4.7m N-S). Its foundations courses and those of the N abutting wall were stratified above the main building indicating that they were a later addition. The full extent of these walls was not revealed. All the buildings were stratified above an extensive layer of dark soil and charcoal in which one sherd of medieval pottery was found outside the E wall of the main building suggesting that there were medieval domestic buildings in this area.
The following image is attached:
GA058-004002-.jpg View from NW
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 August 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1989).
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 166.
References
Sweetman, P.D. 1987 Archaeological excavations at Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 87C, 1-12.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.