Field system in Ballinphuill, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On S-facing slope in marshy grassland overlooking bogland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 379:3) confirmed that a number of irregular field walls depicted on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) formed part of a field system covering an area c. 500m N-S by c. 400m E-W. Small rectangular and irregular fields defined by low earthen banks were noted, as well as two small irregular enclosures, possibly animal pens. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA098-141

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