Enclosure in Ballygunneen, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In pastureland. Marked only on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular enclosure (c. 22m NW-SE; c. 18m NE-SW). No visible surface trace survives. Possible an animal pen.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA114-008

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