What is recorded here

Indicated is an ecclesiastical enclosure in Tuam, County Galway, whose curving boundary still shapes property lines and an old laneway near the River Nanny. The lane’s high mortared walls and bent axis may preserve the street plan from before the early 18th century Bishop’s Palace and Bishop St. Redrawn the town. Inside what is now ordinary housing, a possible church site remains buried beneath flat ground, waiting to be remembered through the shape of the place rather than a standing ruin.

In the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----) close to S bank of the River Nanny, it straddles NE end of Bishop St. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a curving boundary, its line can be traced from S through W to NNE, indicating a roughly subrectangular enclosure (N-S 100m, E-W >100m). To S of Bishop St., its line is preserved in property boundaries, but to N of the street it survives in the curving axis of an old laneway along which the td. and B. boundaries run. This lane, flanked on either side by high mortared stone walls, probably preserves the old street plan prior to the early 18th C when the Bishop's Palace was constructed (Bence-Jones 1978, 276) and the line of Bishop St. was probably laid out. The interior, which is now occupied by modern properties, is generally flat and contains the site of a possible church (GA029-068002-). 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

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