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Keave,keeloges (kilconnell By.),lattoon, County Galway, Ireland

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Townland
Keave,keeloges (kilconnell By.),lattoon
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.43803, -8.36628
SMR number
GA061-089001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating pastureland in a house cluster named 'Chapelfeenaghty' on OS 6-inch maps. The Ahascragh-Ballygar road runs through it on a NNW-SSE axis. To E of the road is an irregularly shaped graveyard (NNW-SSE c. 80m, ENE-WSW c. 35m) (GA061-089003-), named but not clearly marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. Roughly D-shaped in plan, its notably curving E wall also forms the td. boundary. Though modern, this may preserve a segment of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure curving from N through E to SSE. However, immediately outside the graveyard at SE are faint traces of a separate curving bank following a completely different projection. It consists of an arc of a low wide earthen bank (L 12m, Wth 5.6m, H 0.5m max.) visible from SSE to SSW. Within the graveyard are the sites of two post-medieval RC chapels (GA061-089004-, GA061-089005-) and a souterrain (GA061-089006-), and there is a holy well (GA061-089002-) outside it to NE. Finally, the field to E of the graveyard is known as the 'Chapel Acre'. Another large enclosure (GA061-090----) lies c. 80m to N.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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