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Enclosure

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In flat pastureland close to W boundary of td. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). What survives is a short section of an earthen bank (L 2m) at ESE and a degraded scarp from SE through W to N, with traces of a possible external fosse at N. A number of field walls cut the monument. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA074-040

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