Enclosure in Eochaire, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In undulating scrubland to the south of the Knockbane River. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA068-046

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