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
- 53.12356, -9.70896
- SMR number
- GA110-121----
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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----); in a shallow valley. Kinahan's plan (1869d, 27, no. 16) shows a three-chambered structure faced externally with clay. What survives today is the conjoined ruins of two collapsed cairns of stone, one circular (D c. 11m ext.) adjoined on SW by an oval mound (L 12.5m, Wth 7.8m). While the former is featureless, the later contains the wall lines of a passage or chamber. (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.