Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
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
- 53.21997, -9.04680
- SMR number
- GA102-039001-
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
On Tawin Island in an area of commonage; storm waters collect in a natural depression visible c. 6-8m to the WNW, just behind shoreline. Coastal defences in the form of rock armour have been deposited along the shoreline. This D-shaped house (dims. 5m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) abuts the inner wall-face of a possible enclosure (GA102-039----) at NNW. it is defined by the remains of a low wall (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m; T at top 0.5m; T overall 2.45m) from NE to SW. The upper portion of the wall appears to have been rebuilt in places. The interior contains collapsed stone from the wall of the enclosure. Possibly of 18th-century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.