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
- Monuments
- Coordinates
- 53.11054, -9.67100
- SMR number
- GA111-021----
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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
The southernmost of a group of six surviving, and two destroyed, leachtanna cuimhne (GA111-021001--GA111-001-) situated on side of the road from Cill Ronáin to Cill Éinne, Inis Mór. A square rendered pier (L/Wth 1.25m, H 2.4m), on NE side of road, surmounted by a cross bearing the letters IHS. The W and E faces contain plain plaques whilst S contains two others commemorating 'Margt O Flaherty Als Dirrane', dated 1830. (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
- Leacht cuimhneunder 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.