What is recorded here
No wall or ditch remains in Cloonruff grassland, though a circular enclosure thirty metres across still belongs to the land beneath the turf. The vanished fort may have housed a family, held a herdsman through winter, or marked a boundary nobody remembers. It disappeared without a broken stone or named victim, returning its shape to the field.
In reclaimed grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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