Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Temple, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.