Embanked enclosure in Curraun, fairy fort in County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a bivallate circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60-70m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and referred to as 'Danesfort' in the OS Name Book (vol. 3). It is situated on a SW-facing slope of White Mountain with the NE-SW Pollmounty River c. 500m to the SE and the SE-NW Aughnacrew River c. 750m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX024-032

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