Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Cloonsheen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsheen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54626, -9.03169
- SMR number
- GA028-011----
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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
Close to E bank of the Black River in level grassland. A rectangular enclosure (E-W 47.5m, N-S 32.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved at E. An entrance is visible at SW and a possible leat, to W of it, runs WNW into the river. A field wall overlies the inner bank at E.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.