What is recorded here
On a N-facing slope. This poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (c. 32m N-S; 30.4m E-W) occupies the scooped-out W end of a low but steep-sided drumlin. It is defined along the E half by a scarp and elsewhere by a low earthen bank. A round house site (GA104-036----) lies c. 150m to the NW. (McCaffrey 1952, 214, no. 70)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA104-038
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Martin Kerans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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