Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockaunbrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunbrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monument (Leacht =a=Layiga)
- Coordinates
- 53.64728, -8.67709
- SMR number
- GA005-084----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of Checker Hill. It comprises a subrectangular flat-topped earthen mound (E-W; L 4.5m, Wth 4m, H <1.5m) in good condition. According to Neary (1914, 120, no. 9), this was a viewpoint from which 'the generals stood in war time and kept watch and ward'. Local tradition records it as the grave of a soldier killed in battle and that the hill takes its name from the colour of his uniform.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.