What is recorded here
On a slight rise in bogland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a quadrangular enclosure (c. 35m by c. 35m): on 1st ed. there are small roughly diamond-shaped projections at E and W angles. All that survives is an irregular overgrown mound, quarried away at the centre, with a large breach at W. Possibly a moated site. II - North Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA072-031
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mikeconneely, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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