Enclosure in Killian, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a slight rise in otherwise level grassland. A slightly raised lozenge-shaped platform (E-W 30m, N-S c. 28m) defined by a bank of earth and stone and external fosse. The bank, on which some stone revetment is visible, runs intermittently along the perimeter; the fosse is very overgrown and its edges are indistinct. In the interior are the stumps of several uprooted trees. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA046-056

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