What is recorded here
Located in large arable field c. 550m SSE of Balrothery Church (DU05-057003-). The ring-ditch, clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (24 June 2018), comprises a circular area (ext. diam. c. 8.4m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1.8m). There is no evidence for an entrance gap across the ditch.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU005-197
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Offdaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- GsmithEIDW at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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