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House - early medieval

Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - early medieval, Cill Mhuirbhigh, 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
Cill Mhuirbhigh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.12536, -9.76736
SMR number
GA110-039022-

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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 is one of four possible house sites (see also GA110-039021-, GA110-039023- and GA110-039024-) that were uncovered during the course of excavations in the SW part of Cutting 1, in the inner enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----). This example, identified as Structure 7, was located 1.5m to the S of Structure 1 (GA110-039021-). The only evidence of its existence consisted of an upright slab and a fragment of a second contiguous slab. They projected at a slight angle from the deposits underlying the enclosure wall. In size and appearance the blocks resembled the revetment wall in structures 1 and 9 (GA110-039023-). It was not possible to determine whether the remains had formed the N or S wall of the house. There was no trace of an occupation surface and no definitely associated features were identified (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 349-50, 357, 360).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 23 June 2020

References

Cotter, C. 2012 The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.

Nearby in the register

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

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