Enclosure in Pollacorragune, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a N-facing slope in pastureland overlooking bogland to N. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a subrectangular enclosure (NW-SE c. 60m, E-W c. 45m). The curving arc of an earthen bank is present from NE to S, and is overlain at S by a field wall. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A curving field bank, to W, may run just outside W limits of the monument. There is a CBG (GA029-147001-) in NW quadrant of the interior. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA029-147

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