Embanked enclosure in Ballyleen, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular field (diam. c. 40m) on the 1922 ed. Situated on a W-facing slope. A semicircular arc (diam. c. 30m) of a bank, with internal and external stone-revetting, survives E-S-W where it has been incorporated in a field bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA025-005

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