Lisnagry, fairy fort or ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (D 24m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank survives at NW and SE, elsewhere it is overlain by a field wall. A gap (Wth 2.8nl) at E could be original. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA073-115

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