What is recorded here
Kinmona South holds a circular rath thirty-point-eight metres across, its earth and stone bank still standing on a pasture slope. A narrow southeast gap leads past a low rectangular platform toward a hidden underground passage in the north-west quadrant. The fort is not a fairy tale but a human-made chamber where shadow and memory still move.
On a slope in pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 30.8m), in fair condition, defined by a tree-planted bank of earth and stone with traces of internal stone-facing. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at SE outside of which a low rectangular stony platform (L 3.5m; Wth 2.2m) is visible; it may be associated. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA114-107001-) within the NW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 283, no. 81a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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