'Incredible find' - Bronze Age fortress discovered in Co Galway

A Galway archaeologist has discovered what he describes as one of the most extraordinary monuments of probable Bronze Age in Ireland.
Michael Gibbons identified the large fortress, which is bound by turloughs or seasonal lakes, within the park at Coole, during field work in the Burren lowlands east of Gort in Co Galway.
Working with Muintearas, the Gaeltacht education project, Mr Gibbons said the site had been known previously, but its antiquity was questioned.
However, his recent survey of the area indicates it is a unique fortress which used the turloughs as part of its defence and is likely to date from between 800 and 1200BC.
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