What is recorded here

Knockmaa still holds a broad stone disk twenty metres west of its largest cairn, a flat circular platform built from loose limestone boulders. It is small enough to be overlooked, yet deliberate enough to suggest that people shaped the summit rather than merely crossing it. Perhaps they gathered there to mark a boundary, honour the dead, watch the weather or simply enjoy the rarity of standing above Galway. The stones do not explain themselves, but they refuse to be dismissed as ordinary rubble.

On the summit of Knockmaa, c. 230m W of the largest cairn (GA042-064002-). A very low but well-defined circular platform of loose limestone boulders (D 14.8m) up to c. 1m in height. Its surface is flat but there are faint traces of a stony bank around the perimeter. (CUCAP ATF 28) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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