Embanked enclosure in Taylorstown, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45-50m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated on top of a small hill. The NW quadrant survives at ground level as a grass and fern –covered D-shaped area (dims 24m E-W; 19n N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.5m; H 0.3-1m) W-N truncated by a NW-SE field bank at E and an NE-SW field bank at S. The vegetation mark of an outer fosse (diam. c. 90m NE-SW) can be seen NW of the NE-SW field bank on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX040-045

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