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
- 53.13986, -9.78595
- SMR number
- GA110-015----
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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 field to NNE of and c. 40m from another clochan (GA110-014----). This rectangular clochan (L 5.6m, Wth 2.2m), illustrated by Kinahan (1869d, plate VI, fig. j), has almost centrally placed opposing doorways in N and S walls. The N, E and W walls contain one window while S has two. The fine corbelled roof is partly reconstructed. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 224-7; 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
Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.
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.
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.