Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Graigue (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigue (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissaghow
- Coordinates
- 53.57180, -8.78730
- SMR number
- GA017-104----
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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 gently undulating pastureland, immediately to W of the Tuam-Dunmore road. Boggy terrain lies to NW and a stream flows NW-SE to N. Well-preserved rectangular moated site (E-W 55m, N- 37.6m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of the outer bank survive only along S and W sides. The road probably cuts through the line of the fosse and outer bank along E side. A possible leat runs off NW corner. A small rectangular depression (L 6m) lies within the interior, close to the inner bank at SE, and an oval structure (N-S; L 6m Wth 5.5m), possibly a house site, is built on top of the inner bank at SSW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.