Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Kilshanvy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilshanvy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockaunpastia Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.56529, -9.03052
- SMR number
- GA028-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a gentle rise in flat pastureland, the Kilshanvy River flows by to E. Poorly preserved rectilinear enclosure (E-W 33m), the S half of which has been completely quarried away. It is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive only at NW. A gap at W may mark the original entrance. There is a CBG (GA028-032001-) in the interior.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.