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
- 53.12382, -9.70661
- SMR number
- GA110-130----
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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 a slight W-facing downslope. A penannular cairn (L 14.2m, Wth 11.2m ext.) with a gap at W. Prior to its excavation by Goulden in 1955 (Waddell 1988, 40-2), it appeared as an oval cairn (L 14.8m, Wth 13.4m) with mounds of stone at N and S. Excavation revealed a flagged floor with quantities of shell and bone, but the site was too disturbed to recover original plan. (Kinahan 1869d, 27, no. 18; 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.