Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Skehanagh Upper, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skehanagh Upper
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74887, -9.28740
- SMR number
- MA099-005----
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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 pasture on SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. 39m N-S) on slight height, delimited on NE by fence and road. Bank levelled. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Possibly a ringfort.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 392.
Date of upload: 22 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.