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
- 53.11035, -9.67057
- SMR number
- GA111-021004-
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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
Stands 1m W of GA111-021003-. Poorly preserved, almost square pier (L 1.2m, Wth 1.15m, H 2.5m) originally surmounted by a cross, now displaced. The S face contained two plaques, now displaced, commemorating 'Simon Wig(gi)ns'. Haddon and Browne (1893, 807) give the date as 1845. (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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.