Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.10111, -9.65271
- SMR number
- GA119-020003-
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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 SE end of Árainn/Inishmore in an area of shifting sands. This large irregularly shaped graveyard (120m NNW-SSE; 115m WNW-ESE) is enclosed by a stone wall. Access is at SW. The church (GA120-020001-), known locally as Teaghlach Éinne, is located in its N sector. Most of the gravestones date to the 19th and 20th centuries and a number of upright limestone flagstones are also visible. According to Westropp (1895, 264), the graveyard contains the graves of 120 saints, including that of St Enda (see GA119-020002-). These burials were located in the area to the NE of the church but were all buried in sand (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3, 351). No visible surface trace of them survives. However, during the course of excavations at the church in 1984 a setting of slabs, possibly marking a grave, was uncovered on the N side of the church. This feature may be one of the graves on the edge of the ancient graveyard (Manning 1985, 111).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 February 2016
References
Manning, C. 1985c Archaeological excavations at two church sites on Inishmore, Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 115, 96-120.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.