Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Moneen West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15207, -8.76080
- SMR number
- GA114-136----
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
On a gentle E-facing slope in reclaimed pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as subcircular enclosure (c. 29m NW-SE; c. 26m NE-SW); on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is circular in plan (diam. c. 12m) and on the 1921 edition of the map it is more irregular in shape (c. 13m NE-SW; c. 9m N-S). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.