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Field system in Ballycore

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What is recorded here

On a steep-sided NE-SW ridge occupying an area of c. 14ha. A series of banks and fosses and trackways associated with a motte and bailey (WI020-010----) which lies at the SW end of the ridge and a possible moated site (WI020-025----) at the NE end.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI020-010001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Sciadopitys from UK, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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