Caltragh Fort, enclosure in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a ridge in undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 50m, E-W c. 40m). The monument has been levelled and no visible surface trace survives. An enclosure (GA087-221----) lies 100m to SSE. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA087-220

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