What is recorded here
Clochan in Eochaill holds two oval stone cairns at the foot of a Galway bluff, the larger stretching 7.5m with an internal wall still visible at its northeast edge. They lie 90m east of Dún Eochla, separated by fifteen metres of ground, small enough to walk between in a breath yet old enough to have watched the sea change moods. The smaller one keeps opposing doorways at east and west, as if admitting and releasing the same wind.
At the foot of a bluff c. 90m E of Dún Eochla (GA110-138----). The remains comprise two clochans: (a, GA110-137----) a collapsed oval stone cairn (L 2.8m, Wth 2.3m) with traces of opposing doorways at E and W; (b, GA110-137001-) c. 15m to W is a second oval cairn (L 7.5m, Wth 5.3m), with internal wall facing visible at NE.
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: 12 June 2017
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- What survives
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