Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
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
- 53.08964, -9.63996
- SMR number
- GA119-027----
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
Near the SE tip of the island on exposed limestone rock. According to Robinson (1980), this is a modern stone circle that was built by the land artist Richard Long in 1975. It has since been partly damaged by the elements (pers. comm. T. Robinson).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Watchtowerunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.