Embanked enclosure in Tominearly, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight SE-facing slope with a small S-N stream c. 150m to the E. It is described in the 1940s as the slight outline of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). Nothing is visible at ground level in a harvested cereal crop.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX025-027

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