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
- 53.10464, -9.63194
- SMR number
- GA119-024002-
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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
Associated with an enclosure (GA119-024001-). Kilbride (1868) documents two clochans: (a) apparently on the line of the enclosure, it was investigated in 1867 and proved to be of 'a quadrangular shape on the inside' (c. 2.5m by c. 2.65m, H c. 2.45m). The corbelled roof was then intact and there was an entrance, with a stone-walled passage outside it, on eastern side; (b) c. 5m to WNW, and within the enclosure, is a second mound of limestone (E-W 12.2m, N-S 10m, H 1.65m) crowned by a flat rectangular slab. This clochan was already 'in ruins' in the late 19th C as a result of the insertion of burials (GA119-024003-) into it. (Westropp 1895.264-5; 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.