Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Skehanagh (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skehanagh (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13047, -8.76549
- SMR number
- GA114-160----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough grazing land. Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular hachured enclosure (c. 37m N-S; c. 34m E-W); on the 1921 edition it is defined by a wall. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a ringfort.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.