Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06592, -9.52941
- SMR number
- GA120-002011-
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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
The drystone wall that defines the graveyard (GA120-002002-) associated with ‘Cill Ghobnait’, the church (GA120-002001-) located in its NE quadrant, may mirror the line of an earlier, roughly subrectangular ecclesiastical enclosure (c. 48m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW). The interior is uneven and the ground level in the SW sector is c. 3m higher than that to the NE. An almost vertical natural crag separates the two sections. Apart from the church, three leachta (GA120-002007-, GA120-002008-, GA120-002009-) and two bullauns (GA120-002004-, GA120-002005-) are associated. (Gosling 1993, 96, no. 552)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 21 January 2016
References
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.