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Religious house - Augustinian nuns

Eanach Dhúin, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - Augustinian nuns, Eanach Dhúin, 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
Eanach Dhúin
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.38828, -9.07188
SMR number
GA069-001004-

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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

The initial monastery established at Annaghdown is traditionally attributed to St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 60-61, 203, 276, 312, 359). It adopted the rule of the Canons Regular of St Augustine in the 12th century (ibid., 156-7) when a convent of Arroasian Augustinian nuns was also established. The latter appears to have failed at the end of the century but may have been revived as a house of Premonstratensian Canons (GA069-001005-) before 1224 (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 56-7). No visible surface trace of this nunnery survives.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 20 December 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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