What is recorded here

Kilmurry still belongs to the church on the eastern edge of Lecarrow, though the oval boundary has largely dissolved into pasture. A stony bank and curving scarp remain beside a children’s burial ground, two holy trees or wells, and a ruined church, suggesting that monks once lived where sheep now graze. The land may have been held as sacred long before anyone drew a line around it.

On a rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1917) as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE). All that survives is a length of stony bank (L c. 35m) at E and a curving scarp (L c. 30m) at W. A church (GA117-064004-), children’s burial ground (GA117-064003-) and two holy trees/wells (GA117-064001- and GA117-064005-) are associated. These remains, when coupled with the name of the adjacent townland to the E (Kilmurry), are indicative of a possible early Christian monastic settlement. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 October 2017

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