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Earthwork in Ballyhacket Upper

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On slight rise, in pasture, a mound of earth (H above fosse 8-9m) constructed of material excavated from wide fosse (Wth 20m; D 0.8m). May represent the E portion of a badly mutilated ringfort.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW003-006

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