Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cahernamuck West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernamuck West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22655, -8.58720
- SMR number
- GA097-051002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The inner bank of a moated site (GA097-051001-) is composed mainly of earth but it is topped with a stone wall that may be the remains of a bawn wall associated with the tower house (GA097-051----), which overlies its SE corner. Wall revetment is visible intermittently on both faces of the bank and is best preserved along the S side where a continuous stretch is visible for a length of 11m. Here the wall (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m) is constructed of large blocks of limestone inner and outer facing stones and a rubble core. A later field wall runs along the N two-thirds of the W bank and the W end of the N bank.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 December 2019
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.