Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sundial (present location)
Raheen (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30195, -8.76346
- SMR number
- GA084-151008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This sundial (L 1.46m; Wth at top 0.4m; Wth at base 0.36m; T 0.1m) is currently located in the OPW depot in Athenry, Co. Galway. When recorded by Macalister (1916-17, 167, no. 92, and plate XXIV), it was on the S wall of the nave of St Caimin’s Church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra (Holy Island), Co. Clare. It consisted of 'a slab with a hole for the gnomon, pierced through the stone, and a semicircle with five rays below it.’ See CL029-009034---- for original location.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 16 February 2023
References
Macalister, R.A.S 1916-17 The history and antiquities of Inis Cealtra. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 33C, 93-174.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
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- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.