Lisnaseragh-angall, fairy fort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On N-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 29.5m) defined by a degraded scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank best preserved at SW. There are two small quarries at N and S. A field boundary cuts the monument at NNE. (Neary 1914, 118, no. 37) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA005-009

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