Enclosure in Cloverpark, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a rise in undulating grassland. A very poorly preserved irregular enclosure (NNW-SSE 46m, ENE-WSW 30.5m), originally probably circular in plan, defined by a scarp from SE through W to N. A field fence cuts the monument at N and SE, to E of which it has been greatly disturbed by quarrying. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA086-091

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