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Enclosure in Ballywire

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Enclosure in Ballywire is an enclosure in Ballywire, County Tipperary, Ireland. It appeared as a circular area about 20 metres across on the 1906 map, stood in gently undulating pasture 30 metres south of a west-southwest to east-northeast flowing stream, and matched another local ringfort until it was levelled around 1930. No surface trace is now visible at ground level.
In gently undulating pasture c. 30m S of a WSW-ENE flowing stream. Shown as a circular hachured area (diam. c. 20m) on the 1906 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Monument levelled c. 1930 according to local information and was similar to another ringfort in the area (TS066-096----). No surface trace now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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