St. Eanys Round Tower

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.