Raphuca, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a NW-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (36.2m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the fosse and outer bank survive from NE to ESE. A gap (Wth 2m) in the inner bank at NE may be original. A field wall cuts across the fosse and outer bank from W to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 January 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA102-022

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