What is recorded here

Kilcholan is a broken shrine beneath the Dún Eoghanachta bluff, preserving a low enclosure wall and a triangular gable stone that once marked holy ground. It is not a grand cathedral, but a small church fragment half-swallowed by time, where worship may have continued long after its builders disappeared. The name itself sounds like prayer compressed into stone, and the ruin still holds that shape.

To NE of and below limestone bluff upon which Dún Eoghanachta (GA110-020----) stands. This Nat. Mon., known locally as Cill Comhla, consists of a low, partially destroyed early ecclesiastical enclosure wall (GA110-019007-), at present U-shaped on plan (60m by 44m). There is a broken slab shrine (GA110-019001-) (E-W; L c. 2m, Wth c. 1.35m) in SW sector with triangular W gable-stone, and a possible enclosing kerb just outside it on NW. Three possible clochans (GA110-019004-, GA110-019005-, GA110-019006-) and other indistinct foundation lines (GA110-019002-, GA110-019003-, GA110-019008-) are also visible. (Waddell 1976, 86-8; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 229; 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 25 February 2016 The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

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