What is recorded here

Clochan in Cill Éinne holds two distinct chambers within a Galway enclosure, one a tight quadrangular vault with an intact corbelled roof and eastern passage, the other a broad limestone mound crowned by a flat slab. The second chamber suffered ruin when burials were forced into its structure, proving that human urgency often breaks ancient form. The first remains a quiet trap for breath and shadow, small enough to swallow a person whole but large enough to keep them company.

Associated with an enclosure (GA119-024001-). Kilbride (1868) documents two clochans: (a) apparently on the line of the enclosure, it was investigated in 1867 and proved to be of 'a quadrangular shape on the inside' (c. 2.5m by c. 2.65m, H c. 2.45m). The corbelled roof was then intact and there was an entrance, with a stone-walled passage outside it, on eastern side; (b) c. 5m to WNW, and within the enclosure, is a second mound of limestone (E-W 12.2m, N-S 10m, H 1.65m) crowned by a flat rectangular slab. This clochan was already 'in ruins' in the late 19th C as a result of the insertion of burials (GA119-024003-) into it. (Westropp 1895.264-5; 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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