Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Caherwalter,farranalynch,loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherwalter,farranalynch,loughrea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20090, -8.56000
- SMR number
- GA105-049001-
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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
On the E outskirts of Loughrea town (GA105-150----), straddling the main road. The line of this possible enclosure is suggested by the configuration of Danesfort Road to the W of the church (GA105-049002-) and a curving townland boundary to the SE of it. These indicate a roughly circular area with a diameter of c. 200m. However, no visible surface trace of an enclosure wall or bank survives and the land to S of the church is very marshy. Within this possible enclosure lie the church, dedicated to St Bridget, a graveyard (GA105-049003-) and a holy well (GA105-049004-). (Swan 1983, 271, 277)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
References
Swan, L. 1983 Enclosed ecclesiastical sites and their relevance to settlement patterns of the first millennium A.D. In T. Reeves-Smyth and F. Hamond (eds), Landscape archaeology in Ireland, 269-94. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 116. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.