Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Inishshark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishshark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60456, -10.27110
- SMR number
- GA009D005002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a knoll on the SE end of Inishshark, within the E half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA009D005----). On inspection in August 1984, this possible clochan was defined by a spread of loose stone c. 3m by 2m with faint traces of wall-facing along the S. It has subsequently been planned (ext. dims. 6.45m N-S; 4.73 E-W) and Kuijt et al. (2010, 56-7) suggest the possibility that it may also be a dilapidated leacht.
The following image has been uploaded: GA009D005001-_01.jpg View from W. Visible as a scatter of stones to the rear of clochan (GA009D005001-).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Kuijt I., Lash R., Gibbons M., Higgins J., Goodale N. and O'Neill, J. 2010 Reconsidering early medieval seascapes: new insights from Inis Airc, Co. Galway,Ireland. Journal of Irish Archaeology XIX, 51-70.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.