Enclosure in Manuslynn, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). What survives is an oval area (N-S 75m, E-W 45m) defined by a steep scarp from SE through W to NE, and elsewhere by field wall. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA056-114

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