What is recorded here

St. Eanys Round Tower stands as a three-metre limestone stump on Inis Mór, part of St Enda's monastery. Built of well-dressed blocks on a narrow plinth, it lacks any visible doorway. The missing entrance suggests the tower may have been climbed from another building or lost its door when the sea took the surrounding land.

Part of St Enda's monastery (GA119-006006-) on Inis Mór. The stump of a tower (D 4.7m ext., H >3m) built of well-dressed and fitted limestone blocks on a narrow plinth. No trace of a doorway survives. (Lennox Barrow 1979, 99-100; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 346-7) 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 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

St. Eanys Round Tower, Cill Éinne was built as part of St Enda's monastery on Inis Mór, likely between the 7th and 10th centuries. It is a Romanesque-style round tower dedicated to St. Eanys (or Enda), a 6th-century Irish saint, and represents an important monastic and religious site in early Christian Ireland.

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