Lisheenoday, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In rolling pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (23.7m N-S) defined by a bank from S through W to N. A field wall cuts across the monument at N and S and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to E of it. Within NW quadrant of the interior is a blocked-up Man-made underground passage (GA104-008001-). A barrow (GA104-109----) lies c. 50m to SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 208, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA104-008

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