Enclosure in Cill Torróg, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a SSE-facing slope in farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 38m). All that survives are faint traces of a bank from E through So to W. A house (GA070-073001-) lies c. 100m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA070-072

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