Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Nunsacre, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nunsacre
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23679, -8.06077
- SMR number
- GA101-024----
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 pastureland c. 200m to the SSW of the site of a nunnery (GA101-023----). Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building (L c. 23m; Wth c. 8m) aligned NNE-SSW and named 'Site of R.C. Chapel'. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.