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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Church Island (Lough Owel), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Church Island (Lough Owel), County Westmeath, 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
Church Island (Lough Owel)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Dotted outline
Latest-edition OS map
Dotted outline
Coordinates
53.56816, -7.37162
SMR number
WM012-167002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Situated on high ground at SE end of Church Island 7m W of the E shoreline at SE end of Lough Owel. Church Island lies 570m W of the shoreline with the townland of Ballynagall. The oval-shaped form of the graveyard (WM012-167001-) boundary wall S of St. Loman's oratory (WM012-067----) possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 24). There are also indications of a low embankment of bank of earth & stone which may have acted as an enclosure around the perimeter of the island, but no definite facing stones or wall survive.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 13 October 2015

References

Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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