Embanked enclosure in Creakan Upper, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as large bivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 75m) on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a N-facing slope overlooking a col c. 400m to the NE between Ballylane Hill c. 1.2 km SW of the col and a lower NE-SW ridge c. 500m N of the col. It is now completely quarried away.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX034-003

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