Field system in Taghmon, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Located on a slight S-facing slope just SW of Taghmon town and church site (WX041-008003-). A grass-covered area of c. 18 acres (c. 8 ha) is divided into rectangular plots (dims. c. 40m x c. 30m) by low earthen banks (Wth c. 2-3m; H 0.2-0.5m). A sunken roadway (Wth 5-10m; L c. 300m) runs NNW-SSE at the W edge of the fields and E around the SW corner of the surviving fields. A re-used granite gate-pier (dims 0.28m x 0.25m; H 1.58m) is located on a right-angled turn in a field bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX041-007

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