Earthwork in Ballyvadden, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a small enclosure or quarry (dims. c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) backing onto a field bank at E on the 1922 ed. Situated in pasture on the steep E-facing slope of the valley of the N-S Ballyristeen stream, it is not regarded locally as the site of an antiquity and it is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA025-020

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