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Enclosure in Ballynabanaba

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On a hill summit, overlooking bogland from N to E. Marked on 1st ed. of OS map as a roughly circular field (D c. 37m) and on OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a roughly subrectangular hachured enclosure (E-W c. 40m; N-S c. 37m). The hill summit is fairly level but drops sharply to W and N: apart from this, no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 12 October 2015

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA073-019

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Peter Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Picture: Discover Ireland
  • Jan Wyk, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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