Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eoghanacht
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14614, -9.77766
- SMR number
- GA110-010009-
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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
This much-ruined rectangular building (10.3m NW-SE; 4.97m NE-SW; wall T 0.63m; max. H 1.8m) is part of the monastic complex known as na Seacht Teampaill/the Seven Churches. It is c. 10m to the N of Teampall Bhreacáin/Temple Brecan (GA110-010001-). Remains of opposing doorways are evident in the N and S walls and there is a simple rectangular window at the W end of the N wall. Between the window and the W wall there is a niche and two other niches are evident in the W wall. A fragment of a cross-slab (GA110-010015-) lies at the E end of the building (Waddell 1973, 12-14, Building D). (Gosling 1993, 63, no. 349)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 March 2016
References
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.