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Ballybrit

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File:Ballybrit Castle (geograph 2329073).jpg
The tower house of Ballybrit Castle lies within the loop of Ballybrit Racecourse

Ballybrit (Irish: Baile an Bhriotaigh)[1] is an electoral division and townland in the civil parish of St. Nicholas, on the outskirts of Galway city in Ireland.[2][3] The townland of Ballybrit is 2.5 square kilometres (1 sq mi) in area,[2] and is home to Ballybrit Racecourse and a business park.[4] Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a medieval tower house and an earlier ringfort site.[5] The ringfort (or cashel) was used as a graveyard since at least the early 19th century.[6]

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