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Enclosure in Ardnagreevagh

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Enclosure in Ardnagreevagh
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About 100m from the sea in an area of rough grassland and rock outcrop. Described by Kinahan (1869a, 282) as 'a small, nearly circular “Les” [sic] or clay fort, about 23 yards [21m] in diameter'. This was defined by a 'rampart and foss [sic]' but these features had 'been levelled and the ancient enclosure nearly obliterated'. Kinahan had been attracted to the site by the cromleac-like structure 'built in the S.S.W. part of the rampart': this wedge-tomb (GA009-002001-) is today incorporated into a possible remnant of the enclosure bank. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 413) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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