Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht cuimhne
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11113, -9.67038
- SMR number
- GA111-020----
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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 bare limestone close to line of the old road from Cill Ronáin to Cill Éinne, Inis Mór, but c. 85m NE of the present road. Uninscribed, rectangular drystone pier (L 1.15m, Wth 1m, H 1.4m) surmounted by a limestone pillar. A modern animal shelter adjoins it at NW. A rough-out for a cross lies c. 30m to NW and there is a group of eight leachtanna cuimhne (GA111-021---- to GA111-021007-) c. 90m to SSW.
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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.