What is recorded here

Clochan in Eochaill stands as a penannular stone chamber on a slight downslope in County Galway, its western gap exposing a flagged floor scattered with shell and bone. Goulden excavated the site in 1955, disturbing the original oval shape and revealing evidence of repeated human use rather than a single burial event. The chamber likely served as a domestic or ritual space where people gathered, ate, and marked the passage of time long before modern records named it.

Part of Baile na mBocht (GA110-162----); on a slight W-facing downslope. A penannular cairn (L 14.2m, Wth 11.2m ext.) with a gap at W. Prior to its excavation by Goulden in 1955 (Waddell 1988, 40-2), it appeared as an oval cairn (L 14.8m, Wth 13.4m) with mounds of stone at N and S. Excavation revealed a flagged floor with quantities of shell and bone, but the site was too disturbed to recover original plan. (Kinahan 1869d, 27, no. 18; 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

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