Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Ceathrú An Teampaill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Teampaill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08343, -9.59483
- SMR number
- GA119-054001-
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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 Chonchúir (GA119-054----). Described in OS Letters as 'several cloghauns…built against the wall, but they are all destroyed' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 259). Westropp (1895, 268) noted that they 'are now cleared out', probably during the reconstruction work carried out by the Board of Works in the late 19th C. The foundations of at least ten buildings are now visible: (a) the fragmentary remains of two structures at the base of the rampart wall directly to N of the entrance; (b) a penannular drystone structure (NNE-SSW 4m, ESE-WNW 3.8m, H c. 1m) in NW quadrant; and (c) a cluster of seven conjoined structures (Ds 2.5m to 4.5m) directly inside the rampart in SW quadrant. (Anon. 1886a, 301)
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
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.
Anon. 1886a Antiquities of the Aran Islands, County of Galway. The Irish Builder, July 1886, 196-7, 301.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.