Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Mweelin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mweelin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55234, -9.88078
- SMR number
- GA023-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an area of bogland in the Connemara National Park and on the W bank of the Mweelin River. This pre-bog field wall (L 13.5m min.), consisting of a line of boulders (max. H 0.5m), is aligned E-W. It was exposed as a result of turf-cutting and some turf still overlies several of the boulders. An enclosure (GA023-048----) that may be associated, lies c. 30m to the SE on the opposite bank of the river. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
The following images have been uploaded:
GA023-048----_01.jpg
GA023-048----_02.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.