Enclosure in Moycola, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular enclosure (66.5m N-S; 50.6m E-W) is defined by a bank of earth and stone. Quarrying has encroached upon it at E. McCaffrey (1952, 260, no. 12) noted an external fosse on the W side; no visible surface trace of it survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA105-170

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