Earthwork in Killuney, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On top of a prominent hillock in rolling grassland. Poorly preserved circular earthwork (D 15m) cut by a road at E and W: no visible surface trace survives to S of the road. To N of it, traces of a fosse and outer bank are visible curving from NW through N to NE, around the base of the hillock. A separate bank runs off the outer bank at NE, following a slightly curved but roughly E-W axis. A CBG (GA017-119001-) is associated. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA017-119

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