Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan friars
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
- 53.10314, -9.66338
- SMR number
- GA119-006006-
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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 one of the sheltered terraces immediately S of the village of Cill Éinne. A Franciscan friary was established here in 1485 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 242, 276), but subsequently demolished for material to build nearby Arkin Castle (GA119-005001-; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 189, 314, 346, 348, 355). The OS Letters (ibid.) place the friary to E of Friar's Well (GA119-006003-) but no visible surface traces survive here. However, to S of the well, between the cross (GA119-006004-) and round tower (GA119-006005-) are traces of grassed-over wall lines (H 0.4m, Wth c. 2m) of irregular plan which extend over an area c. 32m by 22m. (Westropp 1895, 264)
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
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.