Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Cara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30507, -9.91637
- SMR number
- GA076-020012-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with the early ecclesiastical remains at the SE end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island. What survives are the foundations and/or lower courses of three possible clochans/houses: (a, GA076-020011-) circa 75m NE of the oratory (GA076-020001-) are the lower courses of a subcircular clochan (6.6m by 5.8m) set into the hillslope; (b, GA076-020012-) adjacent to it is an oval structure (12m by 5m); (c, GA076-020013-) finally, c. 50m to NE is a third example, square in plan (L/Wth 5.5m) and of similar construction. (Bigger 1896, 111)
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 1 June 2018
References
Bigger, F.J. 1896 Cruach Mac Dara, off the coast of Connamara: with a notice of its church, crosses, and antiquities. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 101-12.
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.