Enclosure in Lacken, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 50m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) backing onto field banks at SW and SE on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map in a location known as the Rath field. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The rath (WX030-084----) is c. 80m to the SSE, and this location may have been mistaken for the crompark site.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX030-048

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