Quarry in Ballindooly, County Galway

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What is recorded here

A possible earthwork was noted on an aerial photograph taken in January 1987 (pers. comm. M. Casey). On inspection it proved to be a linear quarry cut into a small hillock. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA082-003

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