Lisnagry, enclosure in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In undulating pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1915) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) clipped by a road at S. A bungalow, built in the early 1950s, occupies the site and no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA061-092

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