Quarry in Garra, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular quarry. On inspection in 1985 it was found to have been infilled. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA044-052

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