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Giants Grave in Ballybrone

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Some 10m WNW of a ringfort (GA057-039----). Marked on 1st and 3rd (1933) eds. of OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 27) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA057-043

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