Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Caherweelder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherweelder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower
- Coordinates
- 53.19404, -8.82022
- SMR number
- GA103-086002-
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
Incorporated into the enclosing wall of a cashel (GA103-086001-) at NNW is a later solid stone structure (H 3m; L 6.3m; Wth 2.8m; ) which may have acted as a lookout or may be a folly. It is marked and named ‘Tower’ on 3rd ed. of OS map (1933). (Westropp 1919, 178; McCaffrey 1952, 189, no. 77)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 January 2017
References
Westropp, T.J. 1919a Notes on several forts in Dunkellin and other parts of southern Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 167-86.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.