What is recorded here
In level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a circular enclosure (D c. 60m). Apart from slight traces of a scarp-from NE through E to SSE, and the arc of a fosse from SSE through S to NNW, no visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA073-079
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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