Embanked enclosure in Raheens, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on an E-facing slope. The outline of a grass-covered enclosure can be traced as a curve in a field fence N-SE (C c. 22m) and a slight scarp S-N (dim. 21m E-W).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA016-041

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Dunhill GAA Club and Sports Centre; individual photographer uncredited, dunhillgaasc.ie
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Jamie O’Keeffe / Copper Post, Fenor GAA section, copper-post.beehiiv.com

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