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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kilcooly, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kilcooly, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcooly
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.19843, -8.45345
SMR number
GA106-095005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a locally prominent rise in open undulating pastureland, c. 540m to the E of 'Kilcooly Castle' (106-094----). On the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch map, the graveyard (GA106-095002-) associated with the church (GA106-095001-) is depicted as being roughly subcircular in plan (c. 65m NW-SE; c. 57m NE-SW), suggesting that it may mirror the line of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure. On inspection a low rocky scarp (H 1m max.) was traceable outside the modern graveyard wall, at a distance of 1.2m, from SW through N to SE. At N, this is supplemented by traces of a low stony bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m). It is possible that this scarp/bank is the remains of an ecclesiastical enclosure.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 21 February 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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