What is recorded here
On level ground. Faint traces of an enclosure consisting of a low circular raised area (D 26m) defined from NW through E to S by a scarp, and elsewhere by a modern curving field bank. According to the landowner, the monument was levelled in the late 1930s.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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