Lismaghera, enclosure in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On level ground. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1915) as a subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 36m, E-W c. 32m). The monument was levelled in 1981, according to local information, and all that survives is a very faint scarp from SW through N to SE. A CBG (GA061-096001-) is associated. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA061-096

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