What is recorded here

Turmartin Tower stands as a ruined circular watchtower on Árainn/Inishmore, overlooking Gregory’s Sound and Inis Meáin/Inishmaan. Built from rough limestone blocks, the structure rises three metres high with a blocked doorway at its base. Local story claims it marks the grave of St Gregory, though its true purpose remains uncertain. The tower watches the sea still, keeping its secrets in stone.

On a height in an area of exposed limestone at the SE end of Árainn/Inishmore, overlooking Gregory’s Sound and Inis Meáin/Inishmaan to the SE. This circular drystone structure (ext. D 4m; H 3m) is built of rough limestone blocks and spalls. Two straight lines in the walling at SSW tentatively suggest the presence of a doorway (Wth 0.95m) that was subsequently blocked up. It is reputedly the grave of St Gregory (Westropp 1895, 265). Lennox Barrow (1979, 106) discounted it as a round tower and suggested it was possibly a marker for boats at sea. Its date is uncertain. (Robinson 1980) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 January 2016 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

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