Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilcornan (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcornan (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22997, -8.85174
- SMR number
- GA095-060001-
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
In woodland. Redington (1911-12, 182-3) noted 'the foundations of a larger enclosure' to the E of the doorway of the church (GA095-060----). No other details are provided. On inspection no visible surface trace was found. Possibly an ecclesiastical enclosure?
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 February 2020
References
Redington, M. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin; ii Stradbally parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 171-183.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.