What is recorded here
Some 120m N of another ringfort (GA099-057----). Poorly preserved overgrown circular rath (D 38m) defined by bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from ENE to S. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW may be original. In the centre of the interior is a shallow grassy subrectangular hollow (L 4m, Wth 2m) running N-S. II - North Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA099-082
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jan Wyk, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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