Embanked enclosure in Mocurry West, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on an E-facing slope of a NW-SE spur at the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains, and overlooking the N-S Urrin River which is c. 250m to the E. This is is a circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25-30m) defined by a scarp (H 1m at S to 2m at N) with a berm at its base. The monument is truncated at S by an E-W field bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX014-023

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