Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skecoor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skecoor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lissatogher Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissatogher Forts
- Coordinates
- 53.21831, -8.23580
- SMR number
- GA107-178----
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 hummock in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 24.5m) defined by a bank from SW through W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Traces of a possible external fosse survive at W where a field bank curves around the monument. Another rath (GA107-179----) lies 20m to S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.