Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghaun (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.06592, -9.52941
- SMR number
- GA120-002003-
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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
Some 25m WSW of Cill Ghobnait (GA120-002001-). A roofless and roughly subrectangular clochan (L 3m, Wth 2.05m ext.) built against rock outcrop. Traces of corbelling survive and the doorway faces E towards Cill Ghobnait. (Mason 1938, 197-8; Westropp 1895, 272; Barry 1886, 492)
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
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Mason, T.H. 1938 The antiquarian remains of Inisheer, Aran, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 196-200.
Barry, J.G. 1886 Aran of the saints. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 488-94.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.