Enclosure in Martingale, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of a subcircular area (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a fosse is visible on iMAPs (2022) but the perimeter is only clearly visible E-S-NW. It is also faintly visible on Google Earth (18/09/2019), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX032-063

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