What is recorded here

Checker Hill rises in County Galway with a flat-topped earthen mound on its summit, preserving a soldier’s grave and the colour that named the place. Generals may have stood there during war to watch the land, while the dead man remains buried beneath the grass. The mound still holds both purposes: a viewpoint for the living and a marker for the fallen.

On the summit of Checker Hill. It comprises a subrectangular flat-topped earthen mound (E-W; L 4.5m, Wth 4m, H <1.5m) in good condition. According to Neary (1914, 120, no. 9), this was a viewpoint from which 'the generals stood in war time and kept watch and ward'. Local tradition records it as the grave of a soldier killed in battle and that the hill takes its name from the colour of his uniform. 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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