St. Keirans Bed

In grassland, close to the S shore of Galway Bay. A roughly rectangular depression (9m E-W; 6m N-S; D 0.6-0.8m) is delimited along the S and W sides by two courses of large limestone boulders. At N there is a modern shrine and statue of St Kiernan, in front of which are two hollowed-out bullaun-like limestone boulders. According to Korff and O’Connell (1985, 32), an all-night vigil was held here on the last Sunday in July ‘culminating with a Feis at Tracht’. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 February 2020

St. Keirans Bed is associated with St. Kieran, a 6th-century Irish saint known for founding monastic sites such as Kieran's Hospital in County Offaly. The site may have been used for ritual washing or prayer, and such depressions are often linked to healing traditions or pilgrimages in Irish folklore.