What is recorded here

Enclosure in Carheens is a broken stone oval near Knockmaa in County Galway, possibly post-medieval. Its collapsed wall and inner chambers suggest people shaped the flat scrubland for living or keeping animals before time erased most of the shape.

In level scrubland near the base of Knockmaa. A poorly preserved oval enclosure (E-W 70m, N-S 36m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 2.2-3m) from SW through N to SE: no trace survives elsewhere. The interior is subdivided by an number of internal walls, and particularly by a curving wall to E of centre. A rectilinear annexe (NE-SW 19m, N-S 5m) abuts the monument at SE and low walls radiate from it at WNW and N. A number of houses (GA042-076004-) are associated and a CBG (GA042-076----) lies 9m to E. Possibly of post-medieval date. 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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