Embanked enclosure in Piercetown, mound in County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and located towards the bottom of a slight NE-facing slope, with a NW-SE stream c. 50m to the NE. This is a small, overgrown mound (dims. 26m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE: H 0.4m) at the edge of a marshy area and it may be the spoil from the removal of an earthwork enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX042-018

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David Hawgood, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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St Martin’s GAA Club, Piercestown; photographer not named, stmartinsgaaclub.ie
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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