Earthwork in Ballytrasna, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular earthen mound (E-W 12m, N-S 8.2m, H 0.9m). A boreen encroaches upon its S limits. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA029-030

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