Lisdoolagh, enclosure in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In undulating grassland overlooking bogland to SE. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a subrectangular enclosure (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 35m) cut by a road at N. An earthen bank is visible from W to NW; elsewhere the enclosing element has been levelled and only a slight rise indicates its outline. Traces of a possible outer bank are visible at SE. There is a CBG (GA004-024001-) within the interior. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA004-024

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