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Indicated — Formoyle East

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Indicated — Formoyle East
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On a level terrace of rough grazing (500’ OD) near the foot of Gleninagh Mountain with panoramic views over the Caher valley to E and through the Khyber Pass to Galway Bay at NW. A small poorly preserved oval enclosure (int. dims. 35m E–W; 29.6m N–S) defined by a low overgrown stony spread (Wth 2.1–2.3m; H 0.3–0.5m), enhanced by a scarp (H 0.5m; Wth 0.9m) along its S side. A children’s burial ground (CL002-025001-) lies in its SE sector and a later field wall runs on top of its bank from S clockwise to NNW. Swan (1991, 108) recorded a bullaun and destroyed structure at this location, and suggested it was an early ecclesiastical site ‘degenerated…to the status of a killeen’. It is possible he confused this site with the bullaun (CL002-063001-) and church site (CL002-063002-) c.300m to the S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 2 December 2020

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