What is recorded here
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland prone to flooding. Poorly preserved pear-shaped enclosure (21.3m E-W; c. 13m N-S) defined by a very low and wide grassed-over bank of earth and stone. (Cody 1989, 296, no. 120)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 July 2019
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA096-013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Rryswny, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ingo Mehling, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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