Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Dooros (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA132-013003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland c. 50m to the W of a burial ground (GA132-013001-). The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 515) recorded that, according to local information, there was a 'friary' near the burial ground. It was situated in an adjacent field at a mound of earth (possibly the mound barrow (GA132-033----). No visible surface trace survives. Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 January 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.