What is recorded here
Thirty-eight metres of forgotten wall circles Kilkerrin grassland, its shallow ditch barely visible beneath a house, garden and laneway. The fort has surrendered most of its shape to time and neighbourly convenience, leaving only a faint scar and the suggestion of an outer bank. What remained may have been a home, a boundary marker or a child's climbing mound, but the land still holds the ghost of a deliberate circle.
In gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a scarp and external fosse, with traces of a possible outer bank from N to E. A house and garden disturb the fosse at S, and a laneway encircles it from SW through W to NW.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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