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Clochan

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Clochan, Eoghanacht, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Eoghanacht
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.13956, -9.80087
SMR number
GA110-185----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This clochan came to light during the course of fieldwork on the AranLIFE Farming Project (2014-2018) (see www.aranlife.ie). It is located in a slight hollow on the plateau at the NW end of Inis Mór. The land rises to the S. The clochan is oval in plan (4.6m N-S; 3.5m E-W); an opening at SE (Wth 0.4m) may mark the original entrance. It occupies the NW corner of subrectangular field and its outer wall-face has been incorporated into a later field wall from W to N. Corbelled wall coursing survives at W to a height of 1.5m and the wall, including collapse, is up to 2m wide. Along the E side the corbelled roof has collapsed inwards. Another clochan (GA110-184----) lies c. 130m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 11 December 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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