Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12838, -9.71479
- SMR number
- GA110-104----
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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 the brow of a hill c. 170m SSE of Teampall an Ceathrair Álainn (GA110-086001-). A subcircular spread of loose limestone (E-W 19m, N-S 18.5m, H 1.5m). Some 12 to 14 shallow depressions can be distinguished within the spread whilst at its E limits there are traces of a stone revetment. Kinahan (1869d, 27, no. 24) thought that these resembled 'a cluster of huts' and cited Kilbride's thesis that this was 'the ruins of a Coenobium of a colony of monks'! (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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.