The Takwa settlement is situated on the south side of Manda Island, in the Lamu District in the coastal province of Kenya.
In 1972 the site was cleared again under the supervision of James de Vere Allen, the Curator of the Lamu Museum.
Kirkman thought that it was perhaps a place where holy men or religious people retreated.
It is reported that when Takwa was abandoned, its inhabitants settled just across the bay at Shela on Lamu Island.
Twice a year the people of Shela come to the Pillar Tomb in Takwa to pray for rain.