What is recorded here
Kilcloghans held a twenty-five-metre earthen ring above local bogland, but human feet have since smoothed the boundary into ordinary grass. The fort disappeared from sight while keeping its shape in memory, waiting for rain or reckoning to reveal the circle again.
In grassland overlooking bogland to E. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 25m). 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
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