Burial Ground in Laragh More, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as small rectangular field (L c. 55m, Wth c. 35m): or 3rd ed. (1931), the NW boundary is shown only by a broken line. What survives is an irregular area delimited by a field wall along NE side but unenclosed elsewhere. Numerous small set stones are visible indicating graves aligned NW-SE. Probably a CBG. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA071-057

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