What is recorded here
Killacolla holds a rare double-ringed fort where two earthen banks surround a narrow ditch, creating a deeper chamber than most local strongholds. The outer circle broke under later field boundaries, but the inner wall still traces an unbroken path across the north-facing hillside. People may have built the first ring for pride or protection, then added the second when danger grew serious enough to demand more room for memory and resistance.
In pasture, on N-facing hillside. Circular area (27.6m N-S; 26.7m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.3m). Inner bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m) forms complete circuit but external bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.6m) and fosse replaced/overlain by field boundary SSE->SW. Interior level and in pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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