Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
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
- GA084-151039-
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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
A number of architectural fragments currently located in the OPW depot in Athenry are originally from the ecclesiastical site on Inchbofin, Lough Ree, Co. Westmeath – see WM015-001017-. They include:
A voussoir bearing a human face with deeply hollowed eyes, a barely discernible nose and a lightly hollowed mouth. The asymmetrical chin is in high relief. The arcs of two circles form the head. Some diagonal tooling is visible and the sinister face is rough (Carved Stone Inventory). Labelled Inchbofin B3 in depot.
A chamfered jambstone bearing a small human face on the chamfer. The figure has slanting oval eyes, a damaged nose and a wide upwards curving mouth (Carved Stone Inventory). Labelled Inchbofin B4 in depot.
A possible jambstone with a double moulding. Labelled B12 in the depot.
Two possible voussoirs: one bearing a head, the other a decorative moulding.
A fragment of a sharpening stone bearing two deep grooves.
Fragments of quernstones – some bearing incised lines indicating decoration.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- 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.