What is recorded here
On a low hillock. An overgrown oval enclosure (N-S c. 78m, E-W 65m), impossible to accurately survey owing to dense growth. It contains a CBG (GA054-039002-) in E sector. Its size, presence of CBG, townland name and local tradition of penal mass suggest that it was an E. Chr. ecclesiastical settlement. I - West Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA054-039001
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The original uploader was Miguev at English Wikipedia ., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Maigheach-gheal, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- andrew mcmillan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
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