Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clochan na Carraige
- Coordinates
- 53.14217, -9.76020
- SMR number
- GA110-033----
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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
On a sheltered terrace to NW of Port Mhuirbhigh, Inis Mór. This Nat. Mon., the best preserved of the clochans on the island, is oval in plan (NE-SW 6m, NW-SE 2.35m, H 2.7m). Two opposing doorways in NW and SE walls give access to the interior, with its fine corbelled roof, and there is a small window in SW end-wall. Probably of 17-18th-C date (pers. comm. E. Rynne). (Barry 1886, 492; Westropp 1895, 255-6; Robinson 1980)
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.
Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.
Barry, J.G. 1886 Aran of the saints. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 488-94.
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