What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballykeroge Big, County Waterford, Ireland. The 1999 inventory recorded an overgrown circular area about 35 metres across, defined by an earthen bank reaching 4.8 metres wide and 1.4 metres high externally at the south, with a slight outer fosse 2 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep running southwest to north. No visible entrance was recorded.

Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of the NW-SE Dalligan river valley with the stream c. 400m to the SW. Overgrown circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 4.8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.4m), with a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.2m) SW-N. There is no visible entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

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