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Enclosure in Gortgarrow

Enclosure

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In a low-lying boggy area of rough grazing land. Well-preserved D-shaped enclosure (E-W 41m, N-S 38m) defined by two banks and an intervening water-filled fosse. The outer bank survives only from NW to N and is overlain by a field bank at NE. Possible causeway at SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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