Enclosure in Motabower, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of a SE-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 90m to the E. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. It is conjoined with rath (WX006-007----), which is immediately to the N and which it may have served as an annexe.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX006-006

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