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
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12357, -9.70971
- SMR number
- GA110-120----
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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
Part of Baile na mBocht (GA110-162----), on slight W-facing rise. Described by Kinahan (1869d, 27, no. 15) as the 'ruin of a cnocán'. It now consists of a rectangular area of collapsed stone (L 6.1m, Wth 5.3m), the interior of which is filled with rubble. (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.