Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
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
- 53.06454, -9.51884
- SMR number
- GA120-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Revealed by the shifting sands of beach on NE shore of island. A small trapezoidal setting of partially collapsed slabs (N-S; L 6m, Wth c. 2.35m) projects from the sand. Its orientation and morphology do not suggest a church. However, local tradition holds this to be Reilig Póil, the traditional site of a buried church dedicated to St Paul. (Robinson 1980; Westropp 1895, 272; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 433).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.