Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monasterkieran or Monasterconnaughtagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monasterkieran or Monasterconnaughtagh
- Coordinates
- 53.13191, -9.68507
- SMR number
- GA111-002001-
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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
On a terrace overlooking Port na Mainistreach and N shore of Inis Mór. This Nat. Mon. consists of E. Chr. and medieval remains on the site of St Ciaran's 6th-C monastery. The principal monument is a multi-period church (E-W; L 11.5m, Wth 5.95m) known locally as Teampall Chiaráin. It has a trabeate doorway in W gable, transitional E window, and a pointed-arch doorway in N wall. Closely associated are three ruined buildings (GA111-002009-, GA111-002010-, GA111-002011-), a holy well (GA111-002002-) to WNW, as well as a sundial (GA111-002014-) and a cross-inscribed pillar (GA111-002003-). There are two other pillars (GA111-002006-, GA111-002007-), possibly termon markers, and a CBG (GA111-003001-) in the fields to NE and ENE. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 364-9; Westropp 1895, 262; Cochrane 1901, 308, 310)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
The following image has been uploaded: GA111-002001-_01.jpg E gable
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
References
Cochrane, R. 1901 Proceedings: excursion to County Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 305-40.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.