Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Caherweelder, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.