Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Altar
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
- 53.10335, -9.66402
- SMR number
- GA119-006002-
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
This altar (1.6m x 1.12m; H 0.9m) lies c. 1m to the N of St Eany’s holy well (GA119-006001-). It is constructed of undressed limestone blocks and was built against a natural limestone rock face immediately to the W. It is capped with two flagstones, one of which bears the deeply incised letters ‘IHS’. A small Latin cross with triangular terminals rises from the horizontal bar of the letter H.
The following image has been uploaded: GA119-006002-_02.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 January 2016
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 1914 - National Monument 43.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.