Embanked enclosure in Brocorrow, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25-30m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a valley bottom with a SW-NE stream c. 60m to the SE. The confluence of this stream with the W-E Aughnaglaur River is. c. 100m to the E. This is a slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 22m WNW-ESE; 17m NNE-SSW) defined by a slight but broad scarp (H 0.3-0.7m) that is truncated by a NW-SE field bank at S. It is known locally as Whelan’s Rath, and it has always been in this condition.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX030-027

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