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Enclosure in Ballyfair

Enclosure

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What is recorded here

Visible in tillage on a 1969 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYN 8) as the cropmark of a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 30m). Also faintly visible in tillage on a 2010 OSi Orthophoto.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD028-059

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