What is recorded here
Kilquain holds a broken earthen ring on a marshy hummock, its bank breached by gaps that admit rain and grass. The fort measures thirty to thirty-four metres across, small enough for a handful of people yet large enough to exclude everyone else. It may have been a home, a refuge or a boundary marker before the land changed around it. What remains is a suggestion of shape, not a wall of certainty.
On a hummock in marshy grassland, formerly part of Kilquain Demesne. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (34m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank which is breached by numerous gaps.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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