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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), 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
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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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

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.

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