Templemoyle

Area

101,868 m² (10.19 ha, 25.17 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Templemoyle

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 8 recorded monuments.

• GA071-082 Burial ground
  Description

  On a low glacial rise, c. 100m NE of 'Templemoyle Church' (GA084-127002-) and c. 240m SE of 'Templebally' (GA071-082003-). During the extraction of sand and gravel from a sandpit, burials have been recurrently found at various intervals since 1952. They have been variously reported as being only c. 0.4-0.6m below ground surface and aligned E-W (Topgr. Files, NMI) In 1979, a graveslab (GA051-082005-) bearing the inscription 'OROIT AR MAELPOIL' and a large bronze-coated iron hand-bell of 7th-9th-C date were discovered at the site, indicating that the burial ground was probably associated with the adjoining churches (pers. comm. Prof. Rynne). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of revision: 1 December 2011

• GA071-082002 Enclosure
  Description

  Surrounding a church (GA071-082003-). Aerial reconnaissance in July 1917 (CUCAP BGI 34) revealed a large subrectangular enclosure (NNE-SSW c. 90m, ESE-WNW c. 40m ext.) around the church. This is best preserved along N and E sides where it is visible on the ground as an earthen scarp (H 1m max.) with traces of an external fosse. Two drainage trenches run into the fosse at NE and N, and NW corner appears to be overlain by tillage ridges. Apart from the church, which stands in N half of the enclosure, no other internal features are visible, but a number of indistinct cropmarks are visible from the air immediately to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA071-082003 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  On a td. boundary in low-lying pastureland. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 275), this is the site of a house of the Franciscan Third Order founded in 1442. The standing remains comprise a gaunt and partially ivy-covered rectangular building (ESE-WNE; L >19.1m, Wth 6.75m), in fair condition, possibly of late medieval date. The E gable along with substantial sections of N wall, and foundations of S survive but there is no trace of W gable. There is a roughly built rectangular-headed doorway towards E end of N wall. The E gable contains a damaged pointed arch window of two lights with trefoliated heads. The only other architectural feature is the addition of a 'skin' of masonry (Wth 0.2M) on the inner faces of N and S walls at W end of the building. That on N wall is up to 3m in height and was probably designed to support a second storey at this end of the building. An enclosure (GA071-082002-) is associated. 'Templemoyle Church' (GA084-127002-) stands 265m to S and a burial ground (GA071-082----) c. 240m to SE. (Nolan 1901b, 123; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 257-60) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA071-089 Burial
  Description

  Human remains were discovered in the W face of a sand and gravel quarry in 2011. Excavated under licence (11E0430) it was found to comprise a shallow grave containing the remains an adult male in a crouched position. The lower limbs had been exposed in the quarry face and were without feet; these may have been removed in the quarrying process or by subsequent slippage of the quarry face. The exposed bone was weathered, indicating that the remains had been exposed to the elements for some time. A small hole in the skull was the only noticeable blemish in the skeleton that was otherwise in good condition. This wound was inflicted by a small, socketed, iron arrowhead which had pierced the skull and was recovered from the interior. A small section of a souterrain (GA071-090----) also was exposed in the same quarry face some 24m to the NE. (Galway City Tribune, 25 November 2011) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 1 December 2011

• GA071-090 Souterrain
  Description

  The creep of a souterrain and human remains (GA071-089----) were discovered in the W face of a sand and gravel quarry in 2011. The creep was defined by two low portions of vertical walling (ext. Wth 1.50m; ext. H 1m). The tops of the walls were 0.30m below ground surface and the E wall appeared to support a partially discplaced lintel. On the ground surface above and to the N of the creep, a shallow rectangular depression may indicate the track of the souterrain. The burial (GA071-089----) was exposed in the face of the quarry c. 24m to the SW. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 1 December 2011

• GA084-127001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of a low rise overlooking a large bog to SW. It consists of a subcircular enclosure, possibly multivallate, surrounding church (GA084-127002-). The line of the outer enclosure (WNW-ESE 280m) is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) by field and td. boundaries curving from SE through S to WNW. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1971 (CUCAP BGI 35) shows a possible earthen bank along the line of this enclosure from SW to W. The aerial photograph also revealed the presence of a middle enclosure (ENE-WSW c. 150m), represented by an earthen scarp curving from E through S to SW. A number of subdivisions and a series of cultivation ridges are visible internally, particularly in the area immediately S of the modern graveyard. The latter has a notably curved SE boundary wall, possibly representing the line of a third inner enclosure immediately around the church. The church itself appears to be roughly centrally placed within both it and the middle enclosure. A holy well (GA087-127004-) lies 80m to SSW of the church, in S part of the outer enclosure, and a burial ground (GA071-082----) c. 100m to NE, just outside it. Another church (GA071-082003-) stands 265m to N. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 71 (GA071-082004-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). See also: J. Mannion, Tech Saxon. 'An Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement in early medieval east Galway.' Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 60(2008), 9-21. Date of upload/revision: 01 July 2014

• GA084-127002 Church
  Description

  Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-127001-). All that survives is a section of S wall (L 11.25m) of an apparently rectangular church, aligned E-W. The only architectural features are two single-light round-headed windows, probably of 13th-C date (pers. comm. Prof. Rynne). At the time of OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 257-9), a substantial section of N wall (L 13.25m) and E gable were also intact, the latter containing 'two lancet windows of cut stone', described as being 'of the same kind' as the surving windows. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 275; Nicholls 1973, 36) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA084-127003 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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