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
- 53.54844, -9.87543
- SMR number
- GA023-056----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in an area of rough grassland on a small terrace on the E bank of the Mweelin River, with clear views of Kylemore valley and Ballynakill Harbour to the NW, this roughly circular hut site (int. diam. 2.6m; ext. diam. 4.5m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.5-1.9m). It is best preserved at S and a gap at NE may the doorway. It was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Date of upload: 30 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.