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Building

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Eoghanacht, 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
Eoghanacht
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.14620, -9.77730
SMR number
GA110-010006-

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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

This rectangular building (12.2m E-W; 4.9m N-S) which is part of the monastic complex known as na Seacht Teampaill/the Seven Churches is c. 25m to the NE of Teampall Bhreacáin/Temple Brecan (GA110-010001-). It is constructed of mortared limestone masonry and remains of the E, S and W walls (max. H 1.4m) survive. The line of the N wall is indicated by a few stones. There is a simple lintelled doorway in the S wall with a rectangular window to the E of it. A niche is visible in the W wall (Waddell 1973, 12, Building A). This building is very similar to Building F (GA110-010011-). (Gosling 1993, 63, no. 349)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 8 March 2016

Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.

Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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