Embanked enclosure in Garraun Lower, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a D shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 90m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) that appears to have been truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW on the1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a S-facing slope at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge. This is a subrectangular dished area (dim. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) planted in a root crop with a curve in the field bank (C c. 60m) at NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX024-011

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