What is recorded here

Knockogonnell holds a faded ringfort where a modern pit has bitten through the interior and a field boundary has strangled the remaining bank. The earthy circle stretches forty-two metres on a gentle slope, large enough to swallow several lives or hide them from plain sight. What is left suggests a place once shaped for defence or domestic order, now reduced to a ghost line in grassland.

On a NE-facing slope in gently rolling grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 42m, E-W 37.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is present from E through S to SW. The bank is overlain by a field boundary from NE to SE and does not survive at NW. A large modern pit some 2m deep occupies NE sector of interior. 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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