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Clochan in Eochaill (bar. Árainn)

Clochan

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Clochan in Eochaill is a collapsed circular cairn on cleared pasture in County Galway, preserving a small rubble-filled chamber inside a broad ring of fallen stone. Kinahan recorded the site in 1869, and the visible chamber measures barely three metres across, suggesting people once built a tight enclosed space before the land and centuries buried its edges. The name Clochan hints at a small hollow or house, while the broken stone circle still marks the effort of hands that shaped the earth long before the pasture appeared.
Part of Baile na mBocht (GA110-162----); on cleared level pasture. A circular cairn of collapsed stone (L 13.5m, Wth 13.3m) with external stone revetting visible at SE. The rubble-filled remains of chamber are visible in interior (L 3.1m, Wth 2.8m). (Kinahan 1869d, 26, no. 10; 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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