Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Masonbrook, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Masonbrook
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17293, -8.51666
- SMR number
- GA106-125001-
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
In undulating pastureland. A steeply sloping three-tiered oval mound (c. 70m E-W; c. 42m N-S; H c. 10m). Traces of a square enclosure (L/Wth c. 40m) defined by a drystone wall foundation abut the monument at N. Of the ‘Turret’ (GA106-125003-) marked on the summit on the OS maps no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.