Vermount Fort, enclosure in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On top of a prominent hillock. A poorly preserved and totally overgrown oval platform (NW-SE c. 30m, NE-SW c. 25) divided by a N-S running field wall. To E of the wall the enclosing element is reduced to a scrap; to W it was not possible to distinguish it due to overgrowth. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA060-171

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