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Enclosure in Gortlemon

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In level marshy grassland. A poorly preserved enclosure (E-W 34.8m, N-S 18m) defined by a scarp curving from W through N to E. A field boundary cuts the monument at E and W, and no visible surface trace survives S of it. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA086-130

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