Ring-ditch in Ballytory Upper, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a single ditch feature and with a central pit is visible on aerial photographs (BOD 74-9; ASIAP (4) 21-2; 31-3). It is just N of enclosure (WX048-041001-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX048-041002

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