Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Cloghans
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghans (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.10447, -9.68761
- SMR number
- GA119-001001-
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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
In the interior of Dún Dúcathair (GA119-001----). A group of heavily restored, conjoined clochans, with up to five chambers, abut the inner face of the rampart. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 242-50) reported the existence of a second group of over 20 'stone houses' to S of these, but apart from the faint traces of five rectangular structures discernible on the boulder-strewn pavement, no trace of them survives. (Westropp 1914, 333-4)
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
References
Westropp, T.J. 1914 The promontory forts and early remains of the islands of Connacht. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 297-337.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.