What is recorded here
Knocknasop Fort is a fifty-metre earthen ring on a Galway rise, built between the sixth and twelfth centuries to hold a farmstead or local home. Centuries of grazing and rain have flattened most of its shape, leaving only a low bank that invites forgetting rather than awe. Yet the circle still resists erasure, marking the exact moment when unknown hands shaped raw earth into a boundary for daily life.
On a rise in undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 50m) defined by a low bank.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 December 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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