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On NE-facing slope of Checker Hill. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 28m). Neary (1914, 120, no. 10) classified it as 'a circular, earthen fort', known locally as 'Naughton's Rath'. 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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