Enclosure in Ardour, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a hillock in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). Apart from a vegetation band at SE, outside of which runs a shallow fosse, no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA015-003

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