Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Clonfert Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonfert Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24074, -8.05673
- SMR number
- GA101-075----
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
Some 100m to the E of St Brendan’s Cathedral (GA101-017001-). This grassed-over horseshoe-shaped mound of earth and stone (8m E-W; 7.8m N-S: H 1.55m) opens to the N. According to local tradition, four bishops were buried here and each one was commemorated by a large beech tree flanking the mound. Three of the trees survive at NW, NE and SE (pers. comm. C. Cunniffe).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.