Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromwellian Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.10423, -9.65551
- SMR number
- GA119-016----
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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
At the foot of a small limestone bluff close to S shore of Cuan Cill Éinne, Inis Mór. Named 'Cromwellian Burial Ground' and indicated on OS 6-inch map as a circular area (D c. 20-25m) with a small roofed rectangular structure in W half of the interior. All that survives today is an arc (L c. 35m) of earthen bank (Wth 1.5m, H 0.25m), part of which has been destroyed by a sand pit. Nothing is visible in the interior. The graveyard probably dates from the mid-17th century when the nearby bastioned fort, Caisleán Aircín, (GA119-005002-), was built and occpupied.
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). In this instance, the record has been updated in the light of further research.
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 8 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.