What is recorded here

Knockroe holds a subcircular earthen ringfort nearly thirty metres wide, marking a place where people once drew a clear line between their home and the open grassland. Two banks and a ditch still trace that choice across the undulating field, even though later field banks cut through the older shape. The structure survives in fair condition, preserving the sudden boundary humans made before the land smoothed the edges of their labour.

In undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 29.5m, N-S 27.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from SW to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE to NW. A number of field banks cut the enclosing elements. 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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