Quarry in Somerset, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Map note: Quarry in Somerset is a quarry around Somerset, County Galway, Ireland. The map has the location of the mystery, though not all its answers.

In reclaimed grassland. Named 'Gravel Pit (Disused)' on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA099-176

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