Enclosure in Killiane, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a hummock in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (c. 100m E-W; c. 80m N-S) defined by a degraded earthen bank from NW through N to E and by a scarp from SW to NW. Farm buildings occupy the SE sector of the interior and no visible surface traces of the enclosing elements survive here. A trackway cuts across the monument from NNW to S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 December 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA107-108

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