Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cill Éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilchorna in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilchorna (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.11435, -9.68930
- SMR number
- GA110-159001-
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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
On S side of Inis Mór on a level terrace overlooked by higher ground to NW and SW. Known locally as Cill Charna. What survives are the foundation lines and lower courses of a drystone building (E-W; L 11.8m, Wth 5m) with a possible internal dividing wall at W end. No architectural features survive, but it may have been a church. An arc of grassed-over stone lies to SE which, if its line were projected, would enclose the building. The 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1899) marks two burial grounds to W and S, of which no remains are visible. A holy well (GA110-159002-) stands immediately to ENE. A large recumbent stone, lying 35m to S, may be the cross-inscribed pillar described in OS Letters, but noted as lost by Crawford (1913, 155). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 396; 1886, 493; 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.