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
- 53.21783, -8.23587
- SMR number
- GA107-179----
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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, some 20m to the S of another rath (GA107-178----). Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1945) as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) and known locally as a
‘fort’. All that survives is a roughly subcircular area (43m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a degraded scarp. Traces of a fosse survive from S through W to N. Field banks cut across the monument from W to E and from NNE to SSE. The monument was levelled c. 1950.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.