What is recorded here
On flat farmland near NE limits of Ballinasloe town. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a C-shaped enclosure and named 'Fort (Remains of)' (c. 95m NW-SE) on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). No visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'. Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 5 December 2016
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA088-009
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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