Embanked enclosure in Ballyverroge, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of Slievecoiltia. This is a circular scrub-covered area (diam. 35m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 3m; int. H c. 0.5m) N-E and a scarp (H 0.4m at S to 1.6m at W) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (WX034-032----) is c. 260m to the W but c. 50m lower in elevation.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX034-033

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