Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountscribe Or Moneyscreebagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountscribe Or Moneyscreebagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15292, -8.99109
- SMR number
- GA112-031----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland, overlooking Corranroo Bay to the W. This poorly preserved and overgrown circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is defined by a bank overlain by a later field wall. On inspection the interior was being used as a vegetable garden. Possibly a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Tide mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bee-bolesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.