Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
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
- 53.10213, -9.65384
- SMR number
- GA119-018----
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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
In a slight hollow between road and seashore at E end of An Trá Mhór, Inis Mór. All that is visible are a few uninscribed set stones in the hollow which is eroding on to the foreshore. Known locally as Poll na Marbh (Robinson 1980), and reputed to be the burial place of O'Briens slaughtered by O'Flahertys. Skeletons are reported to have been uncovered there in recent times (pers. comm. T. Robinson). There is also another burial (GA119-019---- ) c. 50m to WSW.
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.