Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Glennagarraun, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Some 80m S of an enclosure (GA042-135----). Very poorly preserved circular cashel (D 33m) defined by a drystone wall overlain throughout by a field wall. A number of field boundaries radiate from the monument. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA042-134

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