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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15855, -8.74526
- SMR number
- GA114-128----
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 level pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). A ‘Cave’ (GA114-128001-) is marked in the interior on the 1838 edition of the map. The monument was ploughed out in 1966 (pers. comm. E. Rynne) and no visible surface trace survives. A barrow (GA114-129----) lies c. 50m to the W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.