Embanked enclosure in Corrageen (WX018-007----)

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What is recorded here

Depicted as an oval bivallate enclosure (int. dims. c. 45m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW; ext. dims. c. 80m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a SE-facing slope of the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains and it is visible on the ground as an oval sunken area (dims. 43m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) with a segment of a field bank curving around it at NW. It is partly visible as a vegeatation mark on Google Earth (2011).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX018-007

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