What is recorded here
On a NW-facing slope in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (30.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is present from N through E to S; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse is visible from N to E. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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