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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Eyrecourt Demesne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Eyrecourt Demesne, 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
Eyrecourt Demesne
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.21840, -8.13852
SMR number
GA108-076003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 an E-facing slope in grassland, formerly part of Eyrecourt Demesne. Depicted on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as roughly subcircular enclosure (c. 77m NW-SE) defined by a bank from E through S to NW. A roughly WNW-ESE running field boundary clipped it at NW and field boundaries ran outside it from E to SSE and from SSE to W. Another field boundary cut through the interior at W and NE. A church (GA108-076001-) and graveyard (GA108-076002-) occupied the area to the SE of the latter boundary. On inspection only a short stretch of the bank survived from W to NNE; the N sector was overlain by the WNW-ESE running field boundary. The enclosing element was grass covered and mainly composed of stone (base Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m). Three gaps (Wth 2-3m) were visible in it. Possibly an ecclesiastical enclosure.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 17 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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