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On a SW-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved originally subcircular enclosure (NNW-SSE c. 42m) cut by a field wall at N and S. All that survives are lengths of a curving bank of earth and stone at SE, and from SW to W; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA001-016

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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