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Grave, burial in County Galway (GA009-003----)

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Just above HWM on W side of a small bay. Indicated on OS 6-inch maps and regarded in local tradition as a Famine graveyard: human bones are reported to have been found there after heavy storms. No visible surface trace survives. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA009-003

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