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Enclosure in Ballyslea

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Located on a SW-facing slope in a depression between two natural hillocks in undulating terrain. Indicated on both the 1st (1840) and 1901-5 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps as a small circular enclosure. The site has been levelled with only faint traces of a circular enclosure barely visible. Mis-identified as a natural hillock immediately NE of a site in the Ikerrin Survey (Stout 1984, 20). Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN017-037

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