Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skeanavart, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeanavart
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86594, -8.23182
- SMR number
- RO016-064----
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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
On a rise of the S-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 27m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.55m at S to 3.7m at E; int. H 0.25-0.35m; ext. H 0.6-1m) NNW-E-S, and by a scarp (H 0.9-1.95m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO016-063----) is c. 130m to the NNW, rath (RO016-065----) is c. 170m to the E, rath (RO016-067----) is c. 210m to the SW, and holy well (RO016-066----) is c. 110m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.