What is recorded here

Gateway (in ruins) is a broken gatehouse beside Ross Errilly Friary in County Galway. Its remaining wall still stands about nine metres long, three metres high and just over a metre thick, with ghostly openings blocked inside the stone. It may have marked the edge of the monastery’s enclosed ground, guiding visitors past a ditch and wall toward a place of prayer.

Some 218m S of Ross Errilly Friary (GA041-047----), on the line of a causeway (see GA041-047003-). Named 'Gateway (in ruins)' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted c. 80m to the N of its actual location. All that survives is a section of a mortared stone wall (L >9m, Wth 1.15m, H c. 3m), aligned SE-NW, in which the outlines of a number of blocked opes are visible. A modern wall abuts it at SE end. According to Fahey (1901, 335-6), this gateway was on the line of 'the enclosing wall and ditch which surrounded the … monastery' (see GA041-047004-). 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 26 July 2018

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