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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12825, -9.72155
- SMR number
- GA110-063001-
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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
To NW of and at foot of hill on which Dún Beag stands (GA110-066----). Described by Kinahan (1869d, 28, no. 29) as a 'three-chambered clochan', all that survives today is a penannular grassed-over mound with central depression (3.8m by 3.6m) and a gap at N. Immediately to W is a second collapsed mound (L 3.4m, Wth 3.2m) and 1m to N is a third large oval mound (L 18m, Wth 6m) which may have formed the third chamber. Just to E of these is a bullaun (GA110-063002-). (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
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.