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
- Cloghancaltiraunien (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.12588, -9.71799
- SMR number
- GA110-101----
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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
At W edge of a shallow depression 40m SE of an enclosure (GA110-100001-). This clochan, correctly Clochán Choillte Choinín (pers. comm. T. Robinson), consists of a collapsed roofless rectangular building (L 6m, Wth 4.5m) with S wall completely destroyed. There is a lintelled ope in E wall, and the interior is rubble-filled (Kinahan 1869d, 28, no. 31).
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.
References
Kinahan, G.H. 1869d Notes on some of the ancient villages in the Aran Isles, County of Galway. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 10, 25-30.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.