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Graveyard, burial ground in County Galway (GA082-061----)

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GA082-061----
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On a rise on E bank of River Corrib some 250m SE of the village of Menlough. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an irregular unenclosed area (c. 45m by c. 25m). Since enlarged and enclosed: the earliest dated burials are of late 19th-C date. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA082-061

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