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Located towards the top of a S-facing slope of the ENE-WSW Boley Hill - Carrigroe ridge and close to a col between those summits. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 28m) defined by a slight fosse feature is visible on iMAPs (2022). It is also faintly visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view _01 from iMAPs (2022), _02 from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX016-078

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Ballyoughter community website; individual photographer not stated, ballyoughter.ie
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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