Ecclesiastical enclosure in Cummer,glebe (cummer Ed)

On a slight rise in gently undulating farmland. The slightly curving line of the byroad to S of the church (GA043-085002-), along which the td. boundary runs, appears to preserve part of the line of a large subcircular enclosure (N-S >100m, E-W >85m) from SW to W. From W through N to NNE, its continuation can be traced in a faint curving earthen bank (Wth c. 4m, H 0.5m) in the field to N of the church. The latter, almost centrally placed within the enclosure, is surrounded by a roughly rectangular graveyard within which is a fine burial vault with a corbelled roof. It is dedicated to one 'Edmundos de Burgo' and dated 1730 (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 129-30). The site of a spring well called 'Corr' (ibid.) is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) 45m WNW of the church, just within the line of the enclosure. 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