Enclosure in Attiregan, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In gently undulating farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m). All that survives are the poorly preserved remains of a circular area (D 33m) defined by a denuded bank. Traces of an external fosse are visible from E to SE. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA073-010

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