Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Masonbrook, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Masonbrook
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doon Hill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doon Hill
- Coordinates
- 53.17499, -8.51568
- SMR number
- GA106-124----
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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
On a low ridge in undulating pastureland. This rath (int. dims. c. 45m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE), in fair condition, is roughly oval in plan and is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Causewayed gaps at E and WNW may be original. Traces of parallel lines of set stones running between the gaps are evident in the interior, which is slightly higher than the external ground level. They may mark the line of an old trackway through the site. An L-shaped hollow in the SW quadrant may mark the site of a collapsed souterrain (GA106-124001-). (Knox 1918, 74)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
References
Knox, H.T. 1918b The Masonbrook rings and mound and their relation to other similar works. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 71-96.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.