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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular earthen enclosure (E-W 40.7m) defined from SW through N to SE by a scarp, and delimited elsewhere by a field bank. A field fence cuts the enclosure at WSW and NNW. Quarrying has destroyed the enclosing element at SW. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA098-126

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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