Enclosure in Carrowcreevanagh, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In low-lying pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure curving from ESE to NW (dim. c. 60m) and bounded by a stream from NW to ESE. No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA116-016

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