Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballybaun (GA104-014001-)

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What is recorded here

On a slight rise in pastureland. Poorly preserved and densely overgrown circular cashel (diam. 47.2m) defined by a drystone wall. Field-clearance rubble has been piled against the external wall-face at S. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA104-014003-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. A field system (GA104-014002-) lay immediately to the N; another possible rath (GA104-280----) lies c. 20m to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA104-014001

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