What is recorded here
Kilwullaun holds a forty-seven-metre stone ring where a rectangular house and dark underground passage still wait inside the grass. People may have lived there, hidden goods or simply watched the changeling fields, but the stones never stopped holding their shape. The fairies keep the fort because human memory has thinned to a whisper.
In gently undulating grassland. Circular cashel (D 47.1m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall overlain throughout by a field wall. Field-clearance rubble lies against the outer wall-face from N through E to SSW. A field wall cuts the monument at N and E. There is a CBG (GA042-158002-), a Man-made underground passage (GA042-158001-) and a possibly later rectangular house (E-W; L 14m, Wth 8m) within the 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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