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House - 18th/19th century

Caherweelder, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 18th/19th century, Caherweelder, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Caherweelder
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.18814, -8.82770
SMR number
GA103-088003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

McCaffrey (1952, 188-9) recorded ‘six enclosures, house sites, and some old walls’ in the field immediately to the E of the cashel (G103-088001-). They are not marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and on the 1933 edition the houses are depicted as unroofed structures. On inspection eight houses were noted dispersed over an area, c. 170m E-W by c. 130m N-S, which was heavily encroached with scrub. No discernible pattern was noted in the layout or orientation of the houses (av. L 10.5m; Wth 6.2m), which were constructed of double-faced walls with a rubble core (Wth 0.7m) and survived as low overgrown banks and walls (H 0.8m). Associated enclosures were rectangular or circular in plan.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 19 January 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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