Embanked enclosure in Ballylucas, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 200m to the SE. This is a raised and scrub-covered oval area (dims. 28m E-W; 22m N-S; H 3.5-4.7m) defined by a flat bottomed fosse (Wth 6.5m; ext. D 0.6m) surviving W NE. It is listed as a motte (Colfer 1987, 99).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX033-002

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