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Enclosure in Ballug

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Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on a Digital Globe image (2011-13). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 January 2022

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH008-127

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  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, curiousireland.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com
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