Field system in Rahally, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a W-facing slope in grassland. A series of earthen banks forming roughly rectangular fields cover an area c. 250m E-W by c. 200m N-S. Cultivation ridges are visible within the fields and a curving coeval trackway (L 200m, Wth 5m), defined by parallel banks, runs through the monument. A ringfort (GA086-211----) lies c. 250m to SE. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA086-213

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