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
- 53.12517, -9.70764
- SMR number
- GA110-127001-
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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 cleared level pasture field. A large subrectangular clochan (L 6.6m, Wth 4.5m) with rounded corners externally. Built of substantial limestone blocks with traces of opposing doorways in N and S walls. Roof corbelling survives at SW but the interior contains a lot of roof collapse. An unclassified building (GA110-127002-) lies 12m to W. A mass of field clearance stones have been piled outside at S. (Kinahan 1869d, 26, no. 1; 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.