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Moated site

Srah (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

The record

Townland
Srah (dunkellin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.21640, -8.66508
SMR number
GA105-185----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a low rise overlooking marshy ground. Poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (25.4m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by a bank and external fosse. At W the enclosing element has been levelled and replaced by a modern field wall. Possibly a moated site. A fulacht fia (GA105-188----) lies c. 130m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 10 July 2019

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

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