Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Shrine
Cill Chiaráin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Chiaráin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32105, -9.73728
- SMR number
- GA077-017001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the middle of the older part of the burial ground (GA077-017----). A roughly rectangular box-shaped structure (L 1.75m; Wth 1.35m; H 0.8m) is constructed of large natural boulders and roofed with smaller stones. Inside it loose scattered stones are visible on the ground as well as a piece of quartz and some coins. The structure is difficult to classify or date. It may be related to the slab or gabled shrines that are found on some early Christian sites or it may be of more recent date and related to some tradition associated with St Kieran. (Robinson 1985, 55)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 August 2019
References
Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.