Fairy fort or ringfort in Ballyanne, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as circular enclosure (diam. c . 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a little plateau towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in pasture and is not known locally to have been the site of an antiquity.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX029-010

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