Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Tonaroasty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonaroasty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19419, -8.54668
- SMR number
- GA105-189----
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
To the E of Loughrea town in an area of in rough grazing land. Within a roughly rectangular area (c. 380m N-S; c. 210m E-W) at least eleven rectangular house sites (average L 11.6m; Wth 6.3m) defined by grassed-over foundations are visible. Several associated outbuildings and small fields are also evident. There is a low arched gateway in the field wall to S. A cashel (GA105-189001-) lies in the S half.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 September 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1985).
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 643.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.