What is recorded here
On a low yet prominent rise, c, 450m E of the Clare River. Well-preserved roughly rectangular moated site (N-S 44m, E-W 37m) defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap and possible causeway at S may be original. Traces of two smaller rectangular enclosures lie within the interior at W and NW. II - North Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA070-040
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Graham Horn, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Julie Anne Workman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ingo Mehling, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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