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Enclosure in Ardagh (ballymoe By.)

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Enclosure in Ardagh (ballymoe By.)
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On a ridge in grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (E-W 80m, N-S 71m ext.; GA007-002----) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Possible entrance at SE. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and SW. Abutting the rath at E is a large subrectangular annexe (N-S; L 52m, Wth 40m; GA007-002001-) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. A CBG (GA007-010----) lies 50m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 27 September 2017

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