St. Keirans Bed, ritual site in County Galway

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What is recorded here

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’.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA102-027

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