Enclosure in Lisnamoltaun, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Adjacent to a road, in bogland. An oval enclosure (WSW-ENE 43.7m, NNW-SSE 20.6m) in fair condition. From W to N the bank is extant; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Gaps occur at ENE and SSE; the former may be original. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA086-193

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