Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skehanagh (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skehanagh (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17860, -8.20372
- SMR number
- GA108-214----
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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
On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved rath (63m N-S) defined by a bank of earth and stone
from NE through E to S. A field bank cuts across the monument from NE to S and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to the W of it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 June 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.