What is recorded here
Keamsellagh West once held a rectangular enclosure thirty-seven metres long, nestled between another enclosure and a settlement cluster before pastureland swallowed the memory. McCaffrey doubted whether it was a stone fort, but the shape suggests people lived there, marked the ground and left it behind. The land has been reclaimed, the surface erased, and only the ratio of its sides remains.
In an area of reclaimed pastureland. Recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 195, no. 68b) who classified it as a rectangular 'Stone fort (?)' with overall dimensions of '108' [32.9m] x 120' [36.6m]. It was located between another enclosure (GA103-125001-) to the E and a settlement cluster (GA103-125003-) to the W. The area has been reclaimed and no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 March 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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