Enclosure in Coolnaveagh, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m N-S) defined by the parch mark of a wide feature (Wth c. 3-4m) is visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018; 14/07/2018) but the perimeter can only be traced S-W-N as it is confused with vehicle tacks N-E-S. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced views from Google Earth (18/06/2018) _2 and (14/07/2018) _1 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 28 February 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX012-037

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