Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ben Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ben Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27508, -8.52707
- SMR number
- GA097-016----
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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 poorly drained grassland, c. 30m to the SW of a stream. This well-preserved rectangular moated site (39m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) is defined by two banks and a marshy intervening fosse. The outer bank survives along the NW and NE sides. At N a leat (L 50m; Wth 1m) runs NE to the stream.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.