Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghan (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.12603, -9.71928
- SMR number
- GA110-099001-
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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 a shallow depression in a pasture field c. 160m SSE of Dún Beag (GA110-066----). An almost circular area (N-S 6.8m, E-W 6.5m) defined by roughly coursed drystone walling. The interior is filled with field clearance stones. Immediately NW are the overgrown remains of what may have been a second clochan (GA110-099002-) (pers. comm. J. Waddell). (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 Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.