What is recorded here
No amount of thinking can force a unique answer when the fact is missing.
On a S-facing slope in grassland to W of Creggs village. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure. On 3rd ed. (1930) it is shown as a circular area (D c. 30m) surrounded by a fosse (D c. 60m overall). No visible surface trace survives. A ringfort (GA020-014----) lies 200m to E.
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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