Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Knockbrack (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.30009, -8.49583
- SMR number
- GA086-178001-
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
Within an enclosure (GA086-178002-). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1948) as the 'Site of' a 'Church'. All that is visible is a shallow rectangular depression (L 19m, Wth 8m), aligned N-S. Within it is a small circular mound (D c. 4m, H 0.3m), the centre of which is hollow.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Maltingsunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.