Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Skecoor, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.