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St. Eanys Round Tower

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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'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA119-006005

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