What is recorded here

Cloghan is a small rectangular stone chamber in County Galway, Ireland, with opposing doorways and a reconstructed corbelled roof. It sits slightly south of Eoghanacht on Inis Mór, preserved as a national monument. Kinahan drew it in 1869, and later writers described half its roof destroyed before reconstruction. The chamber is narrow, quiet and exact, more like a locked room than a ruined chapel.

In sheltered depression 0.9km SSW of the village of Eoghanacht, Inis Mór. This rectangular clochan (L 4.16m, Wth 1.95m), illustrated by Kinahan (1869d, 28, plate VI, figs k and 1), has opposing doorways in N and S side-walls and a window in W wall. Three niches occur in E and S walls. The fine corbelled roof has been reconstructed since the time of the OS Letters when 'half its roof [was] destroyed' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 226). (Robinson 1980; Westropp 1895, 255) 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 This monument was taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

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