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Burial

Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), 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
Eochaill (Bar. Árainn)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Leabaancheathrairaluinn Grave of the Four Comely
Latest-edition OS map
Leabaancheathrairaluinn . . . (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.12954, -9.71805
SMR number
GA110-085003-

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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

Standing c. 150m to W of Teampall na Ceathrair Álainn (GA110-086001-). These consist of (a) a plain, thin limestone pillar (H 2.8m) surrounded at its base by a rough rectangular cairn (L c. 3.5m, H 0.5m) (see GA110-085001-), and (b) c. 15m to E in next field, a total of five thin rectangular limestone slabs, three of which are set on edge, aligned N-S, and partly supported by small cairns. Two others lie recumbent, and there is also a small rectangular pillar at N end. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 371-2) record these as 'four flags said to mark the graves of “the Four Beauties”' and they are named as such on the OS 6-inch maps. However, the 'enclosure' (GA110-086002-) to the E of the church was called 'Leaba an Cheathrair aluinn' by the islanders (ibid.), suggesting that the naming of this feature on the maps may be a cartographic error. A possible holy well (GA110-085002-) lies immediately to S.

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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 29 March 2016

This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

Nearby in the register

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

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