Embanked enclosure in Saintleonards, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60-65m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight W-facing slope, with a N-S stream c. 170m to the W. It is not visible at ground level in a harvested cereal corp.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX045-009

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