Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eoghanacht
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13994, -9.77687
- SMR number
- GA110-020001-
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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
Within Dún Eoghanachta (GA110-020----). The foundations and lower courses of three conserved rectangular clochans abut the inner face of W wall: (a) the most northern and largest clochan (L 6m, Wth 3.7m) abuts the cashel wall on W and has a doorway in N wall; (b) abutting S wall of (a) is a smaller clochan (L 4.1m, Wth 1.5m) with a doorway on E side; (c) to S of (b) is the third clochan (L 3.6m, Wth 1.8m) which also has a doorway in E wall. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 222-5; Robinson 1980; Weir 1980, 148)
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
References
Weir, A. 1980 Early Ireland: a field guide. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
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.
Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.