Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Moneyveen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneyveen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35673, -8.46465
- SMR number
- GA073-138001-
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 the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 34m) (GA073-138----), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives at W and N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank survives intermittently and is best preserved at S. A gap (Wth 2m) at E appears original. Within the interior, a rectangular hollow (L 9m), long axis running E-W, is possibly the remains of a souterrain (GA073-138001-).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.