What is recorded here
In flat bogland. This almost circular enclosure (34m E-W; 32m N-S) is the most SW one of three similar enclosures (see also GA036-016---- and GA036-017----, c. 174m and c. 337m to NE respectively) running in a roughly NE-SW line to the SE of the embankment of the former Galway-Clifden railway line. All are…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA036-015
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Photo credits
- Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
- Patrice78500, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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