Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.10456, -9.63176
- SMR number
- GA119-024001-
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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
Close to seashore, amongst the sand-dunes of Barr na Coise, at the extreme NE end of Inis Mór. Kilbride (1868, facing 109, 111-12) records the existence of an ?oval enclosure '72 feet [21.9m] in diam' defined by a wall of 'loose stone', only intermittent traces of which are visible today. Associated with it are two clochans (GA119-024002-). (Westropp 1895, 264-5)
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
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.