What is recorded here

Knockroe rises above Abbeyknockmoy with three ancient stone rings, now crowded by modern relay towers. The largest circle, twelve metres across, still holds the highest point despite concrete instruments and wiring cut into its summit. Human hands built those rings before surveys, yet tower trucks have broken their edges and stripped away some of their stones. The hills have become a bridge between ages, carrying old prayers and new signals into the same Galway sky.

On the summit of Knockroe, a prominent partly wooded hill to SW of Abbeyknockmoy. A total of three small cairns are visible, all denuded and/or partly damaged by the relay stations on the hill summit: (a GA058-061----) the largest cairn on the highest point (OD 554 ft), is circular (D 12m) and was previously used as a trigonometrical point; (b GA058-061001-) c. 12m to S is another circular cairn (D 9m, H 1.6m) surmounted by the modern concrete trigonometrical station; (c GA058-061002-) c. 14m to NE of (a) is another small circular cairn (D 5m, H 0.5m). 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: 9 August 2016

A Neolithic cairn; likely dates to the early to middle Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent hill summit suggests ritual or territorial significance, though its specific function remains unclear due to damage.

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