Enclosure in Ballaverty, County Louth

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What is recorded here

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). dims. c. 36m N-S, c. 32m E-W) defined by two cropmark arcs on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AJZ 15). Suggestions of outer enclosure with wide intervening space.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH008-078

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