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Indicated — Creagh

Enclosure

Why this matters

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

What is recorded here

In gently undulating grassland near NE limits of Ballinasloe town. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). The enclosing element is defined by a degraded scarp from S through W to N. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A number of field walls cut the monument. 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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