Enclosure in Cloonlooaun, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a hillock on SW shore of Loch Róisín Dubh. Small poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (10m by 8m) defined by a single line of limestone blocks (H c. 0.7m). A natural boulder is incorporated at SE. The interior is c. 0.5m higher than the surrounding ground surface. Probably an enclosure of some sort but also possibly the remains of a house. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA009-008

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