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Shrine

Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Shrine, Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ceathrú An Lisín
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.08059, -9.57552
SMR number
GA119-087004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Within a graveyard (GA119-087002-). A flat triangular-shaped holed stone (L 1.53m; max. Wth 0.97m; T 0.1m) indicates the former presence of a slab shrine or monumental reliquary here. This stone is one of the end stones of the structure. The shrine probably held the bones of the of the founder of the nearby church (GA119-087001-). The circular hole near its base would have allowed pilgrims touch the relics or sacred earth within (Waddell 1996, 118, 129). Fragments of a similar shrine also survive in Eoghanacht on Árainn (see GA110-019001-).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 8 August 2019

References

Waddell, J. 1994 (Reprint 1999) The archaeology of the Aran islands. In J. Waddell, J.W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds.), The book of Aran. The Aran islands, Co. Galway. 75-106. Galway. Tír Eolas.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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