Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13191, -9.68507
- SMR number
- GA111-002008-
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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
Robinson (1980) noted that ‘traces of a cashel’ could be seen around Teampall Chiaráin (GA111-002001-). However, on inspection in 1984 no evidence of one was found. It is possible that the curving boreen to the NE of the church may mirror the line of an associated ecclesiastical enclosure. It has also been suggested that the cross-inscribed pillars (GA111-002006- and GA111-002007-) to the NE and ENE of the church may be termon crosses (O’Flanagan 1927, vol. 3, 369 and facing p. 200 (nos. 2, 4) marking the boundary of the monastery.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 February 2016
References
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.