What is recorded here

Kilquain holds a subcircular earthen ringfort thirty-three metres across, reduced by centuries of ploughing to a shallow scarp barely eighty centimetres high. The western bank still stands slightly prouder than the rest, marking the only part the fields did not swallow. cattle graze inside the faint line today, unaware they walk within a fort old enough to have watched the pasture itself become pasture.

In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 233, no. 38a) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 39m) defined by a bank, which apart from a section at W, had been almost completely levelled. It is now defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m) and is subcircular in plan (33m N-S; 31m E-W). Its outline is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photography. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 April 2019

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