Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09753, -9.66174
- SMR number
- GA119-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a level area of limestone c. 750m S of Cill Éinne, Inis Mór. A ruinous D-shaped clochan (L 10.8m, Wth 8.3m ext.) now reduced to a cairn of loose limestone blocks. A narrow L-shaped lintelled passage along N and W sides is a later sheep shelter inserted into the monument. Traces of the original foundations are visible at E. (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
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.