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
- 53.10566, -9.67653
- SMR number
- GA119-125----
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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
This drystone-built and very heavily overgrown clochan came to light during the course of fieldwork on the AranLIFE Farming Project (2014-2018) (see www.aranlife.ie). It is located on a narrow steep-sided valley running N-S and is overlooked by higher plateaux to the E and W. Though collapsed, the surviving remains suggest that this was a substantial circular clochan (int. diam. 3.9m; max. extent including collapse 5.7m) with a possible annexe to its N. Traces of corbelling, four to six courses high (H 0.8m), are visible. The enclosing wall may originally have been up to 1.4m high at 2.6m in width. An arc of collapsed wall adjoining the clochan at S may be the remains of a second clochan.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.