Cahermanureen, fairy fort or stone ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 30m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall which is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. No visible surface trace survives from SSE to SW. A field wall cuts the monument at NNW and SSE. A Man-made underground passage (GA084-067001-) lies in the N half of the interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA084-067

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