Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
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
- 53.22066, -9.03634
- SMR number
- GA102-041----
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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
On Tawin Island, in grazing land close to the foreshore. Holt (1911-12, 249) recorded a slight elevation that was partly enclosed by the arms of a large shallow pool, and on which there were a number of granite boulders that may have formed part of an irregular stone circle. He was informed that 'the appearance of a circle was more marked, before other boulders of the series were broken up for building.' On inspection in May 1992, five irregularly shaped granite boulders (max. H 1.7m; Wth 2.4m; T 1.8m) enclosed a roughly oval area (30m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE); a slight depression in the interior at N may have marked the socket of a boulder that had been removed. Two of the boulders were recumbent but one of them was not set into the ground; one other boulder also did not appear to be set. On re-inspection in May 2008 no visible surface trace of the boulders survived. According to local information, large boulders were removed from this area in the late 1990s to build up coastal defences along the shoreline to the N. Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.