What is recorded here

Killoran's lost fort stood on a grassy rise above a stream, a simple circular bank where people likely lived before reclamation erased it. The landowner still calls it a fort, preserving the shape of what vanished. A stone axehead found nearby suggests ordinary human work, not fairy trickery, though the name still dances around the absence.

On a natural rise in grassland, 150m N of a stream. According to the landowner, this is the site of a 'fort' which consisted of a circular enclosure defined by a bank. However, the area was levelled some years ago during land reclamation and no visible surface trace survives. A 'stone axehead' was found c. 250m to SE (Topgr. Files, NMI). 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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