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Enclosure in Knockroe (kilconnell By.)

Enclosure

What is recorded here

On a rise in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 60m) cut by a field wall at N and S. All that survives is a section of a curving bank (L c. 7m) to W of the wall. 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
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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