Enclosure in Racoona, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as a square enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA070-096

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