Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Lecarrow (pallas Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow (pallas Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15552, -8.34997
- SMR number
- GA117-064002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1917) as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE). All that survives is a length of stony bank (L c. 35m) at E and a curving scarp (L c. 30m) at W. A church (GA117-064004-), children’s burial ground (GA117-064003-) and two holy trees/wells (GA117-064001- and GA117-064005-) are associated. These remains, when coupled with the name of the adjacent townland to the E (Kilmurry), are indicative of a possible early Christian monastic settlement.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.