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Enclosure in Abbert

Enclosure

What is recorded here

On a slight rise in low-lying pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a bivallate circular enclosure with a circle of trees around the outer enclosing element. All that survives is a faint circular platform (D 37m) defined by a slight scarp. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA058-001

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