Quarry in Lughanagh, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused sand or gravel pit defined by a shallow hollow, probably of 19th/20th-century date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA060-173

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