Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pillar stone
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pillar Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.12954, -9.71817
- SMR number
- GA110-085001-
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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
Standing c. 150m to the WSW of Teampall na Ceathrair Álainn (GA110-086001-). This plain limestone pillar (H 2.8m; Wth 0.91m; T 0.13m), surrounded at its base by a rough rectangular cairn (L c. 3.5m, H 0.5m), is said to mark the spot where a saint rests (O’Flanagan 1917, Vol. 3, 373).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 March 2016
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.