Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Doorus, County Galway, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.