Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skenageehy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skenageehy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23719, -8.22666
- SMR number
- GA100-149----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in rolling pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 29m), in fair condition, defined by a bank except from SE to SW where a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary overlies the bank. Trees have been planted around the perimeter of the monument and within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.