Embanked enclosure in Matthewstown, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45-50m) on the 1840 and 1925 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of a S-facing slope at the S end of a N-S ridge. Only a short section of bank, heavily overgrown and obscured by spoil, survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA026-020

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Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Brendan Tobin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Thommcg1980, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jamie O’Keeffe / Copper Post, Fenor GAA section, copper-post.beehiiv.com
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Dunhill GAA Club and Sports Centre; individual photographer uncredited, dunhillgaasc.ie
John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Philip Halling, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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