What is recorded here

Cloghan is a ruined circular stone chamber in a Galway pasture, its wall still standing though the roof has long since collapsed into the field. The interior is packed with clearance stones, perhaps dumped there when the chamber stopped serving the people who built it. A second overgrown clochan lies nearby, suggesting a small neighbourhood rather than a lonely marker. Together they preserve the shape of domestic life in a landscape now occupied mainly by grass and rain.

In a shallow depression in a pasture field c. 160m SSE of Dún Beag (GA110-066----). An almost circular area (N-S 6.8m, E-W 6.5m) defined by roughly coursed drystone walling. The interior is filled with field clearance stones. Immediately NW are the overgrown remains of what may have been a second clochan (GA110-099002-) (pers. comm. J. Waddell). (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 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

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