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Designed landscape - folly

Temple, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - folly, Temple, 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
Temple
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Temple
Coordinates
53.34452, -8.60655
SMR number
GA072-057----

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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

In gently undulating pastureland, c. 80m N of the ruins of Temple House. A well-preserved rectangular enclosure (E-W 40m, N-S 37.5m) defined by an earthen bank along W and E sides and elsewhere by a scarp. Centrally placed within the interior is a smaller almost square platform (E-W 13m, N-S 12.5m) upon which is a low flat-topped rectangular mound (E-W 5.2m, N-S 3.5m, H 1m). Though Knox (1916, 206) refers to it as being 'certainly an ancient work', its morphology, close proximity to Temple House and its absence from 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map suggest that it is a landscape feature or folly or recent date. (Knox 1918, 92)

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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