Quarry in Oultort, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In undulating pastureland. A subrectangular feature indicated by a broken line on the 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be an overgrown disused quarry. 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 GA126-050

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Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Magnumlady, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.galwaytourism.ie
Portumna Camogie Club (photographer not named), portumnacamogie.ie
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rasbak at Dutch Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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