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Embanked enclosure in Ballyhamlet

Enclosure

What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45-55m) on the 1840 and 1927 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a S-N spur with S-N streams c. 700m to the W and c. 1km to the E. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam c. 40m), barely discernible at ground level, but visible as a cropmark with two banks and fosses (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ALS 95, BGP 33).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA028-017

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