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Clochan

Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland

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Townland
Cill Mhuirbhigh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.12770, -9.72040
SMR number
GA110-066002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 NW quadrant of Dún Beag (GA110-066----). Poorly preserved remains of a possible conjoined clochan. All that survives is the grassed-over outline of two contiguous oval chambers aligned on a NE-SW axis: the NE chamber (4.4m by 3.2m) is slightly dished in profile (see GA110-066001-)and smaller than SW one (5m by 4.2m) (see GA110-066002-). A third possible clochan (GA0110-066003-) lies in SW sector: it consists of a low mound (L 8.5m, Wth 5.5m) with a central depression.

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: 18 January 2016

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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