Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Knockatogher, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.