What is recorded here

Knocknamnashee was a circular earthen fort nearly forty-eight metres across, built with two banks and a central ditch on a southern Galway ridge. Farmers later ploughed the rings flat, erasing the stone-lined entrance and inner walls until only a shallow hollow remains in the pasture. The forges are gone, but the field still holds the shape of that lost room.

On the S-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 143, no. 12) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 47.6m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of internal stone-facing were evident on the inner bank and there was a stone-lined entrance gap (Wth c. 2.7m) at E. The monument has been ploughed out and, apart from a slight hollow in the field, no visible surface trace survives. (Lynch Athy 1914, 137) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2018

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