Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eoghanacht
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghan (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.13952, -9.78619
- SMR number
- GA110-014----
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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
In sheltered depression 0.9km SSW of the village of Eoghanacht, Inis Mór. This rectangular clochan (L 4.16m, Wth 1.95m), illustrated by Kinahan (1869d, 28, plate VI, figs k and 1), has opposing doorways in N and S side-walls and a window in W wall. Three niches occur in E and S walls. The fine corbelled roof has been reconstructed since the time of the OS Letters when 'half its roof [was] destroyed' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 226). (Robinson 1980; Westropp 1895, 255)
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).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
This monument was taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
References
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Kinahan, G.H. 1869d Notes on some of the ancient villages in the Aran Isles, County of Galway. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 10, 25-30.
Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.
Nearby in the register
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