What is recorded here
On a rise in undulating pastureland. A poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (D 22m) defined by a bank at SW and NW. Elsewhere only faint trances of the enclosing element are visible. A field wall overlies the monument from N to NNE.
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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