Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moorfield Or Gortnamona, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorfield Or Gortnamona
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnapeak
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnapeak
- Coordinates
- 53.19105, -8.21328
- SMR number
- GA108-196----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland overlooking bogland to the N. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (42m N-S; 38m E-W) is defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank, which is overgrown with hawthorn trees, is visible from S through W to NE, while the fosse only survives from W to WNW. A field bank cuts through the monument at NE and S and no visible surface trace survives to the E of it. A gap (Wth 2m) at N appears to be modern. Lazy-beds are visible in the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.