Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.21948, -9.04546
- SMR number
- GA102-040002-
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 low-lying commonage, on a low rise, c. 60m to the NE of another enclosure (GA102-040----). This subcircular enclosure (dims. 11.5m ENE-WSW; 10m NNW-SSE) came to light following aerial reconnaissance by Markus Casey in August 1999 (SMR file). It is defined by a low bank (Wth 5.05m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.55m) which is best preserved from NW to NE. There is a large gap (Wth 7.5m) at ENE. Field banks associated with a field system (GA102-040003-) radiate from it at S and WNW. Another field wall radiating from it at ENE has been truncated by a trackway immediately to its ENE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.