Caherbriskaun, fairy fort or stone ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level grassland. Marked on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1896) as an oblong enclosure (c. 65m by c. 20m), its long axis running NE-SW, the SE side of which was by then evidently already defaced. All that is now visible is a low oval hillock (E-W c. 45m, N-S c. 35m, H 0.6m), possibly largely natural. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA083-003

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