Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Aharla
- Latest-edition OS map
- Aharla (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.12434, -9.66983
- SMR number
- GA111-013001-
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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 a slight, sheltered hollow on E outskirts of Cill Rónáin, Inis Mór. An almost square drystone building or enclosure (E-W; L 4m, Wth 3.7m) with a narrow entrance in N wall and a modern altar (GA111-013002-) and plaque (GA111-013003-) against E. The N, and parts of S, wall have been rebuilt. The name 'Aharla' suggests a burial ground but there is no evidence of one. Also known locally as Leaba Rónáin and Teaghlach Rónáin, suggesting that it may lie on or close to this saint's E. Chr. monastery of which nothing is known. A holy well (GA111-012----) lay c. 45m to W. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 384; Robinson 1980; Westropp 1895, 266)
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
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.