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On flat undulating pasture under Garryglass Roundabout. Three shallow oval and linear pits (dims. c. 1-2.5m, c. 0.05-0.1m deep) were excavated in ‘Field 12’ (Hayes 2001). The pits were filled with a combination of charcoal and burnt clay, no artefacts or dating material was retrieved from the fills and the function of the features is unknown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI005-104

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