Enclosure in Urracly, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In grassland overlooking a turlough to SW. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m) cut at E and W by a road. No visible surface trace survives, apart from a oval hollow immediately S of the road. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA015-051

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