What is recorded here

Knockaunbrack holds a faded cashel where grass now swallows most of the drystone wall, leaving only a low line and a sharp scarp to mark its round shape. It sits beside another ringfort, suggesting a small cluster of defended lives rather than a lonely fantasy. The fairies may have taken the name, but the stones still belong to the people who built them against rain, hunger and invasion.

Some 130m SE of a ringfort (GA005-086----). Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 37m, E-W 34m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall best preserved from NW to N, and surviving as a low foundation line from N through E to S. A scarp forms the enclosing element from S to NW. Abutting the wall at S is a small rectangular stone structure, probably modern. A ringfort (GA005-085----) lies c. 180m to NE. 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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