Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Oghil Beg, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.