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Ritual site - holy/saint's stone

Doorus, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy/saint's stone, Doorus, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Doorus
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Keirans Bed
Latest-edition OS map
St. Keirans Bed
Coordinates
53.17050, -8.98542
SMR number
GA102-027----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In grassland, close to the S shore of Galway Bay. A roughly rectangular depression (9m E-W; 6m N-S; D 0.6-0.8m) is delimited along the S and W sides by two courses of large limestone boulders. At N there is a modern shrine and statue of St Kiernan, in front of which are two hollowed-out bullaun-like limestone boulders. According to Korff and O’Connell (1985, 32), an all-night vigil was held here on the last Sunday in July ‘culminating with a Feis at Tracht’.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 10 February 2020

References

Korff, A. and O'Connell, J. 1985 Kinvara: a rambler's map and guide. Kinvarra.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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