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Clochan

Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Clochan, Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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