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Enclosure

Oileán Máisean, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Oileán Máisean, 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
Oileán Máisean
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.30040, -9.88594
SMR number
GA076-011009-

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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

Associated with an early Christian church (GA076-011001-). An entrance gap (Wth 2m) defined by two large rectangular boulders (H 0.6m; L 1.2m; Wth 0.5m) is visible c. 12m to the E of the church. Intermittent traces of double wall-footings are visible extending to the N and S of it. These may be the last remnants of an outer enclosure around the church. The field boundary, visible on an aerial photograph (SMR file), curving around the church from NNW to E to SE may incorporate its outline. Apart from the church, it would have enclosed a graveyard (GA076-011002-), an inner enclosure (GA076-011003-) and two leachtaí (GA076-011005-, GA076-011007-). The interior is very uneven. In a dip, just to the N of the inner enclosure, a wet flaggy area is evident where traces of walling are visible. The main section of the wall (int. L 3.5m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth 0.6m) runs E-W and is composed of a single line of boulders. At its E end a section of double-walling (ext. L 3m; ext. H 0.6m; Wth 0.6m) extends to the N and at its W end a section of single walling (L 1.2m; Wth 0.5m) runs to the N and then kinks to the W (L 2m). It is possible that the wall retained a pond.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 29 April 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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