Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Caltra, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltra
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Nunnery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Nunnery (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.44260, -8.42346
- SMR number
- GA060-026001-
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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
On level pastureland which is subject to seasonal flooding. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as the site of a 'Nunnery'. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 242) record that here 'stands a small portion of a wall said to have belonged to a nunnery. The extent of the edifice of which this is a remnant, appears from the vestiges of the foundation as yet traceable, to have been 15 yards by 8 yards [13.7m by 7.3m]'. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly part of the friary (GA060-027002-) of Caltra, the probable site of which lies in the village, 1.25km to SW: the OS Letters (ibid.), considered it likely that this was 'a small chapel belonging to the establishment'. A CBG (GA060-026002-) and an enclosure (GA060-026003-) are associated.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.