Lisnabasty, fairy fort or ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (D c. 43m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from SSW through W to NNE and is breached by numerous gaps; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Quarrying has encroached upon the fosse from ESE to SSW. A number of internal divisions are visible within the interior, and in S half a CBG (GA086-052001-). II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA086-052

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