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Enclosure in Claddagh West, County Galway (GA030-043----)

Enclosure

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GA030-043----
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What is recorded here

On a rise in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as a D-shaped field (NNW-SSW c. 50m) defined from S through W to N by a curving boundary and along E side by a straight one. No visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA030-043

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