What is recorded here
Killachunna held a forty-metre oval fort on a grassy hummock, large enough to exclude every ordinary creature yet small enough to hide inside a single field. People may have lived there, loved there, or forgotten the names of everyone who bled on its soil. The earth swallowed the boundary until even the memory became a line on a forgotten survey. What remains is a shape the land refused to release, waiting for someone stubborn enough to listen.
On a hummock in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE). On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is indicated by a line of hachures curving from S to NW. The curing field boundary shown on the 1945 revision of the 6-inch map probably mirrored its outline. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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