Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Frenchfort, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchfort
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27233, -8.92537
- SMR number
- GA095-173----
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
In low-lying waterlogged land, c. 10m S of a small stream. When initially inspected in August 1982, this possible moated site (33m NNW-SSE; 21m NNE-SSW), in fair condition, was defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A drain cut through it at NE. Field banks running off the outer bank at SW may have been associated. On re-inspection in 2007 no visible surface trace survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.