Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skecoor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skecoor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnacanreen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnacanreen
- Coordinates
- 53.22370, -8.24616
- SMR number
- GA099-174001-
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 undulating grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 34m). When initially visited by the Survey in April 1983 all that survived of this rath was a platform curving from E through S to SW. On re-inspection in March 1987 no visible surface trace survived; it had been levelled as a result of field-reclamation works. However, its outline is visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph (Google 2018). A field system (GA099-174002-) may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.