What is recorded here

Mullarkeys Fort stands as a subcircular ringfort on a grassy rise north of Checker Hill, preserving a four-foot inner stone wall and earthen outer bank that have watched the Galway landscape for centuries. The structure features a distinct southeast entrance and a probable underground passage, inviting wonder about the people who built within its boundaries. Local tradition labels it a fairy fort, suggesting the stones may still hold breath and memory long after human hands stopped shaping them.

On a rise in grassland to N of Checker Hill. Well-preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 28m, N-S 23.5m) defined by an inner dry stone wall, intervening fosse and earthen outer bank. The inner wall, constructed on a platform, is now visible only intermittently but was described by Neary (1914, 120, no. 12) as 'a four foot [1.2m] wall, with foundation stones still in situ'. A field wall overlies the outer bank throughout. There is a well-defined entrance at SE and a probable Man-made underground passage (GA005-080001-) in interior. 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

Mullarkeys Fort, Knockaunbrack is a well-preserved, subcircular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 6th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk, and it may have been considered a place of supernatural significance in folklore.

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