Enclosure in Ballystraw, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on top of a broad hill, with the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir and sea-cliffs c. 100m to the SW. The cropmark of a subrectangular area (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (101) 30-34) taken in July 2000. The cropmark of a drain extends SW to the cliff and the enclosure could be a field.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX044-047

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