Fairy fort or ringfort in Ballyconran, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a small circular feature (diam. c. 25) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. No feature is visible at ground level in a farmyard and there is no local knowledge of an antiquity.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX006-082

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