Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghanabillaun
- Coordinates
- 53.06255, -9.53648
- SMR number
- GA120-009----
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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
On bare limestone in NW part of the island. Only parts of N and W walls survive (L >3.4m, Wth >1.7m), both displaying evidence of corbelling. Traces of a gap at NE may represent an entrance or window. (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
- Seaweed standunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.