Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moanmore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanmore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17962, -8.52154
- SMR number
- GA106-129----
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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 grassland. This poorly preserved almost circular rath (diam. c. 32m) is defined by
a bank (base Wth 3.1m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.5m) and traces of an external fosse (Wth 1.3m). The bank is low and disjointed all round and has been levelled from SW to WSW. A number of trees growing on it have been felled. The fosse is only visible from W to N. The interior slopes to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.