What is recorded here
Knock Hill tilts east toward the light, carrying a thirty-two-metre circular rath on its slope. A low bank and partial fosse still mark the edge, though the land boundary now cuts through the ancient shape. The fort belongs to the living landscape, not a dead display, and its unchanged line suggests people valued the place enough to keep it unbroken.
On E-facing slope of Knock Hill. Circular rath (D 32m), in fair condition, defined by a low bank and external fosse, no visible surface trace of which survives from N to E. The fosse is present from SW through W to N. The td. boundary cuts the monument at ESE and SW. There is a CBG (GA044-071001-) within the interior. (Neary 1914, 123, no. 148)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
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