Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moanmore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanmore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18062, -8.52269
- SMR number
- GA105-159----
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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
On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. A mixed tree plantation, named 'Ring Grove' on the OS 6-inch maps lay immediately to the SW but the trees have since been cleared. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (37.4m NE-SW) is defined by an inner bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m) with traces of a fosse and possible outer bank from SW to NW. The latter may be associated with the enclosing element of grove. A possible souterrain (GA105-159001-) is associated. (CUCAP ALL 33)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.