Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moneen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16308, -8.75372
- SMR number
- GA114-127001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland. A cropmark of this possible subcircular rath (c. 36m NW-SE; c. 34m NE-SW) is visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated 7/3/2018). It was identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère. A possible souterrain (GA114-121----) is associated.
The following image has been uploaded:
GA114-121001-_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 7/3/2018
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.