Enclosure in Mirehill, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Some 220m NE of a ringfort (GA042-200----). A subcircular area (N-S 39m, E-W 37m) defined by a scarp and external fosse from SSW through W to NNE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A laneway cuts the monument at NE and SSW, and two field walls radiate from it to W. Field-clearance rubble is piled within the interior at E, and a CBG (GA042-199001-) is associated. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA042-199

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