Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht cuimhne
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13063, -9.73112
- SMR number
- GA110-058----
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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
On S side of road, beside the present school, in Fearann an Choirce, Inis Mór. Dilapidated square drystone pier (L/Wth 1.2m, H 1.75m), originally surmounted by a cross, now displaced. Its N face contains two plaques commemorating 'Anne Dirrane', dated 1846. There is a group of wayside cairns (GA110-045----) directly opposite, on N side of road. (Robinson 1980)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.