Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tawin West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawin West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21812, -9.03622
- SMR number
- GA102-038001-
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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
Within the rath (GA102-038----). According to Holt (1912, 227) there was another mound to the W of the mound of earth and stone which is visible in the interior. It apparently masked the entrance to a souterrain. No visible surface trace of it survives and no trace of the souterrain was noted.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.