Enclosure in Cloonatleva Upper, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On flat farmland. Marked on 1st and 3rd (1933) eds. of OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. Known locally as a 'fort'. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA073-068

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