Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Foxhall, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foxhall
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20571, -8.38985
- SMR number
- GA106-075----
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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 flat pastureland on the E bank of a small stream. This well-preserved square moated site (32m N-S; 32m E-W) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.44m) is visible all round; field boundaries overgrown with trees overlie its N and S sides. The water-logged fosse (Wth 2.2m) is extant except from E to SE and the outer bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.8m) survives along the W and N sides.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.