Embanked enclosure in Clonjordan, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a steep W-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 125m to the W. Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40-45m) on 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a small quarry (diam. c. 25-30m) on the 1924 ed. It is visible as a faint cropmark (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slight single fosse SE-W-N on aerial photographs (MM (2) 13–15). No feautre is visible at ground level in a cereal crop.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX014-025

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