Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawin West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawin West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen
- Coordinates
- 53.21812, -9.03622
- SMR number
- GA102-038----
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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 improved pastureland overlooking Galway Bay to the S. This roughly circular rath (diam. 30m), in fair condition, is defined by a bank of earth and limestone boulders and it is best preserved from NW to NE; a later drystone field wall overlies it from SE to SW. A N-S running field wall clips the monument at E and a boreen cuts it a W. Within the interior a subcircular cairn of stone and boulders (5.5m by 3m; H 1m) is visible. Holt (1912, 227) suggested it may mark a ‘rifled sepulchre’. Holt (ibid.) also noted a similar mound to the W that marked the entrance to a ‘souterrain’ (GA102-038001-). (McCaffrey 1952, 176, no. 1)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.