Embanked enclosure in Ballygibbon, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular platform (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1921 ed. It is located on a slight W-E spur between a NW-SE stream c. 140m to the NE and a SW-NE stream c. 250m to the SW. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX018-017

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