Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilmacduagh,tawnagh East (killinny Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacduagh,tawnagh East (killinny Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04808, -8.88749
- SMR number
- GA128-034015-
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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
This ecclesiastical enclosure is part of the early monastic complex at Kilmacduagh. It surrounds Templemurry (GA128-034014-), and possibly the cathedral (GA128-034004-) and round tower (GA128-034008-). It consists of a poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (>67m E-W; 62m N-S) defined by a much-denuded earthen bank/scarp (Wth 3.8m; H 0.4m max.), best preserved from E to SE. The county road, running on a roughly N-S axis, cuts through the W part of the enclosure, just to the W of Templemurry. No clear trace of its line survives to the W of the road, though the curving S wall of the graveyard surrounding the cathedral may reflect part of its course.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 October 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2009).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.