Embanked enclosure in Templeshelin, barrow in County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a bivallate embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m), possibly with a pit at the centre, on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a broad N-S valley with a stream c. 10m to the E. It is not visible at ground level at the lowest point of a field planted with cereals.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX030-062

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