Fairy fort or ringfort in Keernaun (GA056-083----)

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What is recorded here

In low-lying scrubland. Almost circular cashel (D c. 32m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field wall from WNW to N and from N to ESE by the td. boundary wall. Within WNW sector of the interior is a rectangular grassed-over stone structure (NNE-SSW; L 3.5m, Wth 1.2m) with a gap (Wth 0.75m) in SW wall; possibly a house. A collapsed stone wall runs NE-SW through W half of the interior. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA056-083

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