Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Knockbrack (kilconnell By.),knockmore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (kilconnell By.),knockmore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29762, -8.49385
- SMR number
- GA086-181----
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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 a ridge in grassland overlooking a turlough. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (NNW-SSE 25.5m, NNE-SSW 22.2m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is extant from ENE through S to WNW; elsewhere the td. boundary forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from SSW to W. Immediately outside the bank at E and S are two small quarries.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.