Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Westquarter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Westquarter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61134, -10.23211
- SMR number
- GA009D027006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the interior of a promontory fort (GA009D027----). Westropp (1911, 63-4) recorded this 'single circular hut 15 feet [4.5m] wide' at the N end of the fort, at the highest point. Like the other house sites (GA009D027001- to GA009D027005-) he recorded, it was built 'with walls of earth and stones' and only survived 'a foot [0.3m] high'. Fragmentary traces now survive.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 October 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1911 Clare Island survey: history and archaeology. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 31, Section 1, Part 2, 1-78.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.