Enclosure in Kellysgrove, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In gently undulating grassland, Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as an oval enclosure (NW-SE c. 50m, NE-SW c. 35m); all that survives is a tear-shaped area defined by a scarp and much disturbed by quarrying. A shallow depression evident from NNE through E to SE may indicate on external fosse. Traces of a bank are visible beyond a field boundary which lies c. 1m to NW of the enclosure. A series of banks, possibly the result of quarrying, extend off the enclosing element at SE. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA087-119

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