What is recorded here
Knockatogher holds a worn earthen ring where human hands shaped the grassland long before modern memory. The bank still marks a small enclosed life, perhaps a home, workshop or place of refuge, while the name invites fairy tales because people once believed the hidden parts belonged elsewhere. Its shallow dimensions and broken lines suggest age, use and forgetting rather than grand design.
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (25.3m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank. A low bank cuts across the interior from N to S and two similar banks abut the monument at E and WNW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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