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Moated site

Knockatogher, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Knockatogher, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockatogher
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28142, -8.62003
SMR number
GA085-065----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In low-lying marshy grassland. This rectangular enclosure (37m E-W; 34m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. The bank is best preserved along the E side. A field bank overlies the fosse on the W side. A small bridge crosses the fosse at N and a causeway crosses it at S. Between these two points a field fence and trackway cut across the interior. In the SE quadrant, a small rectangular structure (L 7.3m; Wth 4m), defined by a bank of earth, abuts the enclosing element. Possibly a moated site. (Cody 1989, 330-31, no. 146)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 10 April 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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