What is recorded here

Knockakilleen holds a thirty-metre stone ring where massive regular limestone blocks still stand, though a later field wall cut across its northern memory. The southern face buries field-clearance rubble, and the interior hints at a wider boundary, suggesting the fort grew or changed before it was forgotten. Fairy fort is the local name, but the stones speak of human hands, likely neighbours shaping a defensible home on level Galway grassland.

In level grassland. Subcircular cashel (diam. c. 30m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall (H 1.5m; Wth 1.3m) from ENE through S to WNW. A field wall cuts across it from ENE to WNW and no visible surface trace survives to the N of it. The lower courses of wall are constructed of massive regular limestone blocks. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the external wall-face at S and internally it appears that the wall was widened to 3.5m as an inner line of wall-facing is visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

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