Embanked enclosure in Toor North, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a shelf on a NW-facing slope overlooking a S-N stream c. 80m distant to the W and an E-W stream c. 230m to the N. Subcircular scrub-covered area (dims. 31m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m) SW-N--NE (downslope), with a scarp down to the interior (max. H 0.6m) elsewhere. It is surrounded by a field bank SW-NNE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA035-005

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