Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Eanach Dhúin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eanach Dhúin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38878, -9.07196
- SMR number
- GA069-001020-
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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
Text excavation under Ministerial Consent (No. C627/Excavation No. 4557) in the field immediately to the N of the existing graveyard (GA069-001006-) at Annaghdown revealed a section of what appears to be the fosse of the ecclesiastical enclosure (Wth 4.2m; D 1.55-1.8m) associated with the monastic complex. The fill of the fosse, which was orientated ENE-WSW, contained a large amount of animal bone, one human bone, some charcoal and pieces of iron slag, and a fragment of the upper stone of a rotary quern with a cross decoration. The animal bone has been radiocarbon dated to the 11th/12th century AD (Crumlish 2017, 216-32).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 August 2018
References
Crumlish, R. 2017 Enclosing ditch uncovered at Annaghdown. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 69, 216-32.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.