Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
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
- 53.10954, -9.65622
- SMR number
- GA111-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A large natural boulder on the shoreline, below the high water mark, is shaped like a boat (information from T. Robinson, 1987). It is known locally as ‘Bád na Naomh’ or ‘Currach Stone’ and it is said that St Enda or St Colm Cille sailed to Aran on it (Robinson 1980).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 February 2023
References
Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.