Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Skehanagh (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skehanagh (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12834, -8.76524
- SMR number
- GA114-161----
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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
On a SE-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 21.4m) is defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m). It is completely overgrown with blackthorn and bramble and a laneway cuts through it at SE. A field-clearance cairn is visible in the centre of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.