Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Watchtower
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Turmartin Tower (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Turmartin Tower (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.09148, -9.63895
- SMR number
- GA119-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a height in an area of exposed limestone at the SE end of Árainn/Inishmore, overlooking Gregory’s Sound and Inis Meáin/Inishmaan to the SE. This circular drystone structure (ext. D 4m; H 3m) is built of rough limestone blocks and spalls. Two straight lines in the walling at SSW tentatively suggest the presence of a doorway (Wth 0.95m) that was subsequently blocked up. It is reputedly the grave of St Gregory (Westropp 1895, 265). Lennox Barrow (1979, 106) discounted it as a round tower and suggested it was possibly a marker for boats at sea. Its date is uncertain. (Robinson 1980)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 January 2016
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
References
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.
Lennox Barrow, G. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
Nearby in the register
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.