What is recorded here

Killian By. is a ghost of a fortress, two faint banks and a shallow ditch on a grassy rise. It stands thirty-two metres from another ringfort, as if the land refused to hold more than a shadow of each. What is left is enough to see the circle, but not enough to know who drew it or why they chose that exact spot.

On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 40m) defined by the slight traces of two levelled banks and an intervening fosse. A ringfort (GA047-038----) lies c. 320m to SE. 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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