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Religious house - Franciscan nuns (Poor Clares)

Townparks (Galway By., St. Nicholas Par.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - Franciscan nuns (Poor Clares), Townparks (Galway By., St. Nicholas Par.), 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
Townparks (Galway By., St. Nicholas Par.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
St. Clares Monastery
Coordinates
53.27477, -9.05952
SMR number
GA094-106----

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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

On Oileán Ealtanach, now Nuns Island, close to W bank of the River Corrib and to NW of Galway town (GA094-100----). Founded in 1649 by Franciscan Nuns or Convent of Poor Clares on a site granted by the Corporation. Abandoned in 1653 but briefly reoccupied in 1660s. By c. 1691 the nuns occupied a house in Market St. within the town. No visible trace remains; the present convent on Nuns Island dates from 1825. (Concannon 1929, 40-80; Hardiman 1820, 274-6)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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