Enclosure in Trane, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated in a slight fold on a SE-facing slope with the N end of Lady’s Island Lough c. 260m to the SE. The cropmark of a double-ditched rectangular enclosure (int. dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (5) 20-24). Archaeological testing (05E0706) by John Purcell c. 60m to the W produced no related archaeological material (excavations.ie 2005:1677).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX048-119

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