Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Eskerboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskerboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21433, -8.32240
- SMR number
- GA107-066----
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
On a S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1945 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), overlain by a curving field boundary from NW to SE. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence suggests that this was probably a rath similar to those c. 250m to the NW (GA107-017----) and c. 260m to the ENE (GA107-065----) respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.