Embanked enclosure in Ballymurrin, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Situated at the summit of a hillock on a N-S ridge. Overgrown circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 4m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m). Traces of an outer fosse (Wth at base 2.3m) survive NNW-NE, but the original entrance cannot be identified.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA025-004

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