Embanked enclosure in Kilcorkey, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope with a SW-NE stream c. 190m to the N. Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX016-018

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