Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Moneyveen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneyveen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.34762, -8.45037
- SMR number
- GA073-145----
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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 ridge in grassland, c. 100m N of the td. boundary. Poorly preserved pear-shaped enclosure (N-S 76m, E-W 76m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible at N and S; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SW to N. A causewayed-gap (Wth 3.5m) at NW may indicate the original entrance. Within SE quadrant of the interior is a CBG (GA073-145001-). Its presence, when coupled with the size of this monument and its proximity to the td. boundary, raises the possibility that it could be an early ecclesiastical enclosure. A possible rath (GA073-165----) lies c. 90m to the NNE.
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).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 11 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.