Enclosure in Galbally, County Offaly

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What is recorded here

Map note: There is a map point for Enclosure in Galbally, an enclosure around Galbally, County Offaly, Ireland. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.

Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, S 558/7; 537/6) shows cropmark of large circular enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF042-015

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