Church in Garbally Demesne

Within St Joseph's Terrace, a housing estate to W of Portinuncula hospital, in Ballinasloe town. According to Egan (1960, 15), 'there is some evidence of a church in Dunlo in Kilcloony parish in the tenth century, the high church yard, or infants' burial ground was the seventeenth century name. Its position is shown on 'Petty's Atlas'. In 1955, during the construction of the housing estate, 'large quantities of adult human remains were unearthed' along with 'associated finds, a bronze harp-peg and pin and a bone spindle whorl' (ibid.; Topgr. Files , NMI). No visible surface trace survives. 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