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Settlement cluster in Belleek

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On Kingstown Hill overlooking Clifden Bay to S. Petrie (1972, 253) refers to 'the ruins of three of those buildings [i.e. 'round houses of stone'] ... on the summit of the hill of Kingston over Bel-lice'. No visible surface trace survives. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA035-014

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