Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Eskerboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskerboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Eskerboy Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Eskerboy Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.20809, -8.30393
- SMR number
- GA107-070----
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 level grassland. This subcircular rath (c. 38m N-S; c. 35m E-W) is defined by a bank and external fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at N. A field bank cuts through it at NE and SE and to the E of it the fosse survives as a vegetation band.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.