Enclosure in Lenareagh, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a slight rise in undulating marshy grassland, c. 100m W of a stream. A subrectangular platform (E-W 64m, N-S 34m, H 1.75m) defined by a low bank at N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA072-045

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