Field system in Ballyconra, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

On fairly flat valley floor, in grassland which has been ploughed and reclaimed. Identified as a three separate linear cropmarks on an aerial photograph (CUCAP, AJQ 46) forming a co-axial field system. The linear cropmarks (L c. 160m) are running roughy E-W and are c. 100m and c. 60m apart from N to S. Three ring-ditches (KK004-013001-; KK004-013002-; KK004-013004-) are associated with this field system. Another circular enclosure (KK004-012----), identified as a cropmark, lies c. 200m SW of the field system and is probably also associated with it. Not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK004-013003

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