What is recorded here
In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a subcircular enclosure (D c. 40m), the S part of which was cut through by a laneway running E-W. What survives is a semicircular area, to N of the laneway, defined by shallow fosse (Wth 3m) from NW through N to NE.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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