Mound in Bunavan, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Some 100m NW of a ringfort (GA061-016----). A poorly preserved oval-shaped flat-topped earthen mound (E-W 7.6m, N-S 5m, H 1m) which has been quarried into at S. It is covered with hazel and thorn bushes. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA061-018

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