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Graveyard

Cill Éinne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Cill Éinne, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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