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Field system in Ballygrace

Field system

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Regular pattern of rectilinear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each other, covering area of c. 4ha, visible in aerial photographs (CASAP, July 1989). Cropmarks indicate traces of possibly two distinct overlapping field systems on different axes from present system. Circular enclosures (CO016-27701-; CO016-27702---) and possible ringfort (CO016-114---) within field system.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO016-277003

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