Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Moneyveen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneyveen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. (Private)
- Coordinates
- 53.34882, -8.46916
- SMR number
- GA073-143003-
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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
Within a ringfort (GA073-143001-). Named on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Trench's monument', it is also named on 3rd ed. (1933) as a burial ground. The final resting place of the Trench family of Woodlawn House, it was last used for burial in 1979. A massive and well-preserved castle-like structure, it comprises a circular curtain wall (D c. 32m, H c. 3m) crowned by stepped crenellations, the merlons of which are punctuated by cross-shaped loops. An ornamental entrance at N gives access to the interior which is occupied by a centrally placed circular tower (D c. 10m, H c. 15m) and a number of graveslabs. An arched doorway opens into the roofless interior. The wall of the tower is capped by a string course surmounted by plain crenellations. The interior contains a vault.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.