Ring-ditch in Ballyaddragh, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a fairly level landscape at the top of clay cliffs (H c. 10m) down to the sea-shore, which is just to the NE. Archaeological monitoring (06E0909) identified at least five ring-ditches, but no details are available (McLoughlin 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX048-156

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