Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Cahercon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11254, -8.91699
- SMR number
- GA113-054005-
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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
In an area of improved pastureland. This is one of five houses (see also GA113-054001- to GA113-054004-) that were recorded in the vicinity of the cashel (GA113-054----) in 1979 (SMR file). It was located c. 70m to the S of it. All of the houses were of similar construction to the cashel and were built of double-faced drystone limestone blocks with a rubble core. They had rounded external corners and squared internal corners, apart from House 2 (GA113-054002-) which had squared external corners. Only the SE section of this house survived. An internal dividing wall was evident. Not precisely located but a thorough search was made of the area to the S of the cashel and no visible surface traces were noted.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 January 2017
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.