Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Kilcornan (Kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcornan (Kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31326, -8.71339
- SMR number
- GA084-086----
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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 poorly drained grassland, bounded at E and W by two streams. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1970 (CUCAP BDN 73) revealed a well-preserved deserted village covering an area c. 300m NE-SW by 275m NW-SE. It consists of eight rectangular plots, situated on either side of a narrow grass-covered 'street'. This runs E-W through the 'village' and can be traced for a considerable distance to NW and SE. Each plot contains one or two houses, some with internal divisions. The 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map shows three roofed buildings in this area along with a section of the roadway. This and its regular layout, when coupled with the absence of a church, castle or other diagnostic features, suggest that it is of 17th/18th-C date. Furthermore, the area is also known locally as 'the sixteen tenants'.
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
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 642.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.