Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockacarrigeen

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What is recorded here

On E slopes of Knockacarrigeen in farmland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). No visible surface trace survives. Another enclosure (GA043-107----) lies 25m to NW. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA043-106

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