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Moated site

Moaty (Laurencetown ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Moaty, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moaty (Laurencetown ED)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.21646, -8.17766
SMR number
GA108-186----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 35m NNE-SSW; c. 25m WNW-ESE); on the 1944-5 revision of the map only the W limits are shown and it was clipped by a NNE-SSW running field boundary. On inspection in July 1984 only a slight scarp (H 0.3m) and fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m) were visible, c. 6m to the W of the field boundary, running from SW to NW. To the E of field boundary no visible surface trace survived due to the construction of a silage pit and a shed. Current OSi aerial imagery indicates that the shed has since been removed. Possibly a moated site.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 4 December 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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