Embanked enclosure in Bolany, fairy fort in County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as irregularly-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 45m N-S; c. 45m E-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight shelf of a N-facing slope overlooking the headwaters of the E-W Blackwater stream, c. 650m to the N and c. 60m lower. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX006-081

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