Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan nuns (Poor Clares)
Townparks (galway By., St. Nicholas Par.), County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
Nearby in the register
- Prisonunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.