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
- Lisheen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen
- Coordinates
- 53.19043, -8.20380
- SMR number
- GA108-197----
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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 undulating grassland overlooking bogland to the N. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 35m) defined by a tree-lined bank from S through W to NW and elsewhere by a scarp. An external fosse is visible from NNW through N to SE. Gaps in the bank at WSW and W appear to be modern. A road cuts through the monument at SE and SW and no visible surface trace survives to the S of it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.