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
- Monuments
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monuments
- Coordinates
- 53.10154, -9.66063
- SMR number
- GA119-012----
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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 the edge of a high limestone bluff to SSW of, and overlooking, the village of Cill Éinne, Inis Mór. The westernmost of a group of three leachtanna cuimhne (GA119-012001- to GA119-012002-) of the Fitzpatrick family of Killeany Lodge, which lies c. 120m to SW. A rectangular mortared pier (L 2.30m, Wth 1.40m, H 3.1m) on a low plinth with a pyramidal top, surmounted by a cross with expanded terminals. There are plaques on each face commemorating 'Peter', 'Denis' and 'John Fitz Patrick', dated 1753-54. (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
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.