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Enclosure in Ballymount

Enclosure

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Partial cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 26m) with cropmark of irregular shaped feature immediately to S visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD032-089

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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