diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sw/swig3/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sw/swig3/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 44848c13582c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/sw/swig3/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  autoconf,
-  automake,
-  libtool,
-  bison,
-  pcre,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "swig";
-  version = "3.0.12";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "swig";
-    repo = "swig";
-    rev = "rel-${finalAttrs.version}";
-    sha256 = "1wyffskbkzj5zyhjnnpip80xzsjcr3p0q5486z3wdwabnysnhn8n";
-  };
-
-  # Not using autoreconfHook because it fails due to missing macros, contrary
-  # to this script
-  preConfigure = ''
-    ./autogen.sh
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoconf
-    automake
-    libtool
-    bison
-  ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    pcre
-  ];
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--without-tcl"
-  ];
-
-  # Disable ccache documentation as it needs yodl
-  postPatch = ''
-    sed -i '/man1/d' CCache/Makefile.in
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Interface compiler that connects C/C++ code to higher-level languages";
-    homepage = "https://swig.org/";
-    # Different types of licenses available: http://www.swig.org/Release/LICENSE .
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ doronbehar ];
-  };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 9b9124c71c46..89f848224644 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ mapAliases {
   swiPrologWithGui = lib.warnOnInstantiate "swiPrologWithGui has been renamed to swi-prolog-gui" swi-prolog-gui; # Added 2024-09-07
   swig1 = throw "swig1 has been removed as it is obsolete"; # Added 2024-08-23
   swig2 = throw "swig2 has been removed as it is obsolete"; # Added 2024-08-23
+  swig3 = throw "swig3 has been removed as it is obsolete"; # Added 2024-11-18
   swig4 = swig; # Added 2024-09-12
   swigWithJava = throw "swigWithJava has been removed as the main swig package has supported Java since 2009"; # Added 2024-09-12
   swtpm-tpm2 = throw "'swtpm-tpm2' has been renamed to/replaced by 'swtpm'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17