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Enclosure

Skecoor, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Skecoor, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Skecoor
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.21319, -8.24221
SMR number
GA107-181001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In undulating grassland overlooking marshy land to the E. Depicted on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly trapezoidal-shaped enclosure named 'fort' in Gothic script. The following is appended in Roman script: 'site of R.C. Chapel'. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) the 'Site of' symbol for the 'R.C Chapel' is shown within the interior of the enclosure. On inspection only a rectangular enclosure (18.5m N-S; E-W 15.5m), in fair condition, was visible. It is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the outer bank survived along the N side. There was no visible surface trace of the chapel (GA107-181002-) within the interior.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 3 April 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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