Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock scribing - folk art
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
- 53.10442, -9.66062
- SMR number
- GA119-011----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to local information, this Galway hooker boat (L of hull c. 1m; H from waterline to top of mast 0.88m), depicted in full sail, was inscribed on the exposed limestone by a schoolboy in the 1940s.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.