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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18625, -8.19472
- SMR number
- GA108-201----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grassland. Subcircular rath (42m N-S; 38m E-W), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is best preserved from NW to N. A wide gap (Wth 10m) at N is modern. A possible children's burial ground (GA108-201001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.