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Embanked enclosure in Ballyhoo

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Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a quadrant of an enclosure bank (C c. 30m) W-N surviving NW of a NE-SW field bank on the 1950-51 ed. Situated in pasture on an E-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA017-013

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