Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Ceathrú An Teampaill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Teampaill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08378, -9.61279
- SMR number
- GA119-035----
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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
Near the sea-cliffs on W side of Inis Meáin. Known widely as Synge's Chair, the remains consist of two very ruined clochans: (a), to N, is an area of collapsed rubble (L 7m, Wth 3.2m) with a circular chamber at N end (D 1.4m) and rectangular chamber at S (L 1.8m, Wth 1.1m). To S a wall facing suggests former presence of a now destroyed third chamber; (b) is a second clochan standing c. 12m SSW of (a). Two chambers are visible: a circular chamber at N (D E-W 3.2m) and to S a subrectangular chamber (L 2.1m, Wth 1.5m) with narrow walls which may never have supported a roof. (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
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Distilleryunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.