Enclosure in Carrowculleen — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Killeen Fort stands near the summit of a Galway hill, reduced to a square platform thirty-two metres wide and a faint earthen outline. Neary recorded the circular shape in 1914, but the land has since softened its edges until only a denuded scarp marks the boundary. The enclosure may have served as a watchpoint, a seasonal meeting place or a boundary marker for pasture, yet its true purpose has faded with the soil. What remains is a ghost of geometry, visible only when the grass is short and the light rakes across the hilltop.

Near the summit of a hill in rolling pastureland. Described by Neary (1914, 122, no. 133) as a 'circular, earthen fort, but only the outline remains'; it was known locally as 'Killeen Fort'. A poorly preserved square platform (E-W 32m) defined by a denuded scarp survives. 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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