What is recorded here
Kilmeen holds a forty-five-metre earthen ring where ordinary pastureland bends around a forgotten chamber. Men may have circled it with children or carried heavy loads into the dark, but the earth kept the shape while human names disappeared. The field boundary now crosses the ancient bank, tying the forgotten chamber to the living land.
In level pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 45m), in fair condition, defined by a bank which is
overlain by a field boundary from NE to SE. Another field boundary, running E-W, lies immediately to the S of the monument.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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