Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moorfield (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorfield (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18538, -8.19158
- SMR number
- GA108-190----
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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 undulating grassland, formerly part of Moorfield Demesne. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (31m NNE-SSW; 26.5m NNW-SSE) is defined by a bank. A field wall running NE-SW lies immediately outside it to the E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.