What is recorded here

Knockranny rises steeply in County Galway, carrying an eleven-metre ring-cairn to its summit where a narrow north-western gap admits wind and memory. A modern drystone marker crowds the centre, yet a possible cist still leans within the south-eastern edge, waiting beneath grass and forgotten hands. The hill demands climbing, but it rewards patience with a small chamber exposed at the top of a long ascent.

On the summit of Knockranny, a locally prominent steep-sided hill. This small low circular ring-cairn (overall diam. c. 11m) is defined by a grassy bank externally and a ragged stony scarp internally. There is a narrow gap (Wth 0.5m) at NNW. The interior is slightly dished in profile but it is partially obscured by a modern drystone-built cairn (H 1m; diam. 2.3m) which occupies the centre of the monument. A possible cist (GA057-029001-) is visible in the SSE sector (pers. comm. P. Gosling 2013). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 November 2016

A Neolithic ring-cairn, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE. It represents an early form of ritual or funerary monument, reflecting the spiritual and social practices of prehistoric communities in the region.

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