Quarry in Newford, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In arable land. Only a flattened area overgrown with thistles survived of a hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map on inspection in 1983. Cartographic evidence suggests that it was a quarry pit. 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 GA084-102

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