Enclosure in Rahaly, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a gentle SE-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a very small circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m). On the 1921 edition it was cut by a NE-SW running field boundary and no trace of it was depicted to the NW of the boundary. No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA114-145

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