Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.55225, -9.88035
- SMR number
- GA023-049----
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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
On a W-facing slope on the E bank of the Mweelin River in an area of heather-covered cutaway bogland in the Connemara National Park. This small subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 3m) is visible on an elevated fork of land between the river and a smaller stream. It is defined by a heather and moss-covered bank of earth and stone (Wth 0.8m; max. int. H 0.45m at N; ext. H 0.2-0.8m ) and is best preserved from NNW to NNE; only traces survive from E to S. Possibly associated with the pre-bog wall (GA023-047----) which lies c. 30m to the NW on the other side of the river. A ruined farmhouse and outbuilding lie to the SE. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
The following images have been uploaded:
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Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 7 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.