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Enclosure in Ballycon

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What is recorded here

Described in the ITA Survey of 1942 as 'Below graveyard (OF019-001001-) to N are traces of a rect. [rectangular] enclosure' (ITA file 1942). No obvious indication of any enclosure mentioned by Davies in the 1942.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF019-001002

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  • Kenneth Gallery Smyth, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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