Enclosure in Garrafine, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On level pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 40m by c. 30m). Apart from a faint vegetation band, oval in plan, no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA060-083

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