Caherduff, fairy fort or stone ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a rise in gently undulating grassland. A poorly preserved circular cashel (D 31m) defined by a drystone wall from NW through N to SE; field-clearance rubble overlies the enclosing element at NW and SE. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE and the cashel wall only survives intermittently to SW of it. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA042-015

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