Rathbaun GA015-025---- in Blindwell

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What is recorded here

Some 30m SE of a ringfort (GA015-024----) Circular rath (D 52m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survive at S where the monument is cut by a field boundary. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA015-025

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