Enclosure in Mullaghmore West, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a SE-facing slope in gently undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as an oval enclosure (E-W c. 50m, N-S c. 35m). Apart from an earthen bank at SE, outside of which runs a field wall, no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA045-042

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