Enclosure in Ballynure, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Noted by the OSi air survey branch during the preparation of the 1:50 000 maps c. 1996 and described as a ringfort-type enclosure. Visible on a Google Earth aerial photograph as a circular enclosure (c. 28m N-S; c. 29m E-W)(Accessed: 19 September 2012; Imagery date: 16 April 2003).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI020-027

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