Enclosure in Ballincurry — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Fort Field still faces Lough Loung, remembering a circular enclosure sixty-five metres across that vanished beneath ordinary grass. The land keeps its shape in a hollow and its identity in local speech, suggesting people once valued the view enough to build there.

On a slight NE-facing slope in grassland overlooking Lough Loung to NE. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a large roughly circular enclosure (D c. 65m). No visible surface trace survives; a large hollow marks the site. However, the field in which the site was situated is known locally as 'fort field'. 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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