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Enclosure

Cill Éinne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cill Éinne, 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 Éinne
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.10236, -9.66614
SMR number
GA119-009006-

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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

Teampall Bheanáin (GA119-009001-) was built on the E edge of a bare flat limestone fissured terrace and the ground falls away unevenly to the E of it. The ‘traces of a cashel’ recorded by Westropp (1895, 266) near the church may be the drystone terrace (L 12.5m) with square corners that was built up against the slope about 7m to the E of it. Its lower courses are well built; the upper part has been repaired. It varies in height from 1.4m at the NE corner to 0.6m at the SE corner. The corner of a second terrace or wall was noted to the W of the N face of this terrace and its SE corner was uncovered during the course of excavations, which revealed the foundations of a wall (Wth 0.8m), built on solid rock, running E-W from this corner. No trace survived further to the W where the bedrock was fully exposed (Manning 1985, 101). It is possible that these terrace features are the downslope elements of double rectangular enclosure around the E, S and W sides of the church. If originally built to a reasonable height it would have provided shelter from the prevailing winds (ibid., 110).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 4 February 2016

References

Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.

Manning, C. 1985c Archaeological excavations at two church sites on Inishmore, Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 115, 96-120.

Nearby in the register

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

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