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Religious house - unclassified

Moor (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - unclassified, Moor, 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
Moor (Clare By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Moor Abbey (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Moor Abbey (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.30936, -8.84066
SMR number
GA083-060001-

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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

Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA083-060003-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roofed rectangular building (c. 15m by c. 5m), aligned NW-SE. All that survives are overgrown fragments (Wth 0.36m, H c. 2m max.) of W (L 7.3m) and S (L 3.8m) walls. These probably represent the last traces of a large rectangular building (E-W c. 15m, N-S >7.3m). No architectural features are visible. The interior is occupied by a 19th-C burial vault of the Lambert family. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 367)

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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