What is recorded here

Killeen Fort is a low earthen ring in Galway grassland, marked on old surveys as an oval enclosure before shrinking to a faint mound. Children were buried inside its western half, giving the quiet field a tender edge. The fairies may have built it, but human hands certainly shaped the soil and held the small dead close.

In level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) and on the 1945-6 revision as a small mound (c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W). Apart from a low roughly circular rise (diam. 18m), no visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA101-020001-) lies within the W half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 March 2019

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