Enclosure in Clonleigh, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Located just off the crest of the NE-facing slope of a small hill. The faint cropmark of a perfectly circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) defined by a narrow fosse or ditch feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (3) 26-30). It may have been a tree-ring.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX030-082

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