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Embanked enclosure in Ballyboy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated at the summit of a low hill. Heavily overgrown circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m at SW). There is no visible fosse or entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA015-037

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