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Religious house - unclassified

Oghil Beg, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - unclassified, Oghil Beg, 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
Oghil Beg
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25001, -8.18324
SMR number
GA100-138002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

In marshy pastureland; an E-W running stream flows to the S. According local information, this is the site of a nunnery. It consists of the remains of a rectangular structure (10.8m N-S; 5m E-W). Only the grassed-over N wall (Wth 0.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) and the return of the W wall (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m) as well as a short stretch (L 5.4m) of the S end of the latter wall survive. There is no visible surface trace of the E or S walls; a N-S running field boundary overlies the line of the E wall. While the walls are obscured by grass and rubble, where visible they consist of double-faced walls with a rubble core and they are roughly coursed and composed of limestone.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 1 April 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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