Embanked enclosure in Balliniry, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated towards the top of a gentle E-facing slope. This is a slightly raised and overgrown circular area (diam. 26m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4m at E to 10m at W; int. D 1.3-1.9m; ext. D 1.2m at S to 2m at W). There is no visible entrance, or clear evidence of an inner bank, and the wide fosse SW-NW may be due to quarrying of the outer edge of the fosse.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX045-017

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