What is recorded here
In scrubland, on NW boundary of the former demesne of Hampstead House. A poorly preserved and partially overgrown circular enclosure (D 28m) cut by a field wall at NE and SW. To NW of the wall, it is defined a bank and fosse curving from SW through N to NE; no visible surface trace survives to SE. Numerous breaches in the bank appear modern, and there is a hollow in W half of the interior. II - North Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA073-089
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kk, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Willthacheerleader18, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jan Wyk, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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