Enclosure in Ballyloughbeg, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and visible as a cropmark of a removed earthen bank on vertical aerial photographs (ACAP, V165/74-5). Situated on a S-facing slope c. 550m SW of Belle Lough, it is not visible at ground level, but is visible as a cropmark defined by a double fosse on aerial photographs (MM (78) 0-3).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA018-028

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