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Lisheen in Glennafosha

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Associated with a ringfort (GA043-089----). Though named on OS 6-inch maps as 'Lisheen', suggesting the presence of a CBG, no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA043-089001

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