What is recorded here
No visible fort at Gortgarralt, Gort, despite the name and local direction.
Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a circular platform on the edge of which is a bank. It is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance is on the north-west side where the fosse is causewayed outside a break in the bank. The fosse has disappeared on the north side where a cart track has been built. Its overall diameter is 120' [36m]. Situate in good low-land. Densely overgrown' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Tree-covered enclosure visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 March 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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