Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Drumacoo, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacoo
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Sorneys Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Sorneys Bed
- Coordinates
- 53.19847, -8.90484
- SMR number
- GA103-118006-
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
Circa 15m to the S of the doorway of the church (GA103-118001-) at the monastic complex at Drumacoo. Described by Fahey (1893, 33) as resembling 'one of those stone cells in which many of our early Saints loved to do penance. It measures about 6 feet [1.83m] in length by 4 [1.22m] in width externally’. Its height could not be determined ‘owing to the quantity of rubbish and earth which have accumulated around it’. Its stone roof was still ‘near perfect'. When visited in 1982 the monument was completely ivy-covered and consisted of a rectangular mass of stone (L 2.6m; Wth 2m; H 1.7m) aligned N-S. According to local information, it was subsequently destroyed during a graveyard clean-up.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 December 2016
References
Fahey, J.A. 1893 (Reprint 1986) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Galway. Kenny Gallery.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.