Moated site in Monglass, County Wexford

What is recorded here

Located in a slight hollow of a gentle E-facing slope with a W-E stream c. 60m to the S and the NW-SE River Urin in a deep valley c. 600m to the E. This is a raised rectangular, grass-covered area (dims. 40m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a straight scarp with an external moat (Wth of top 2-3.5m; D below the interior 1.5-2m) on all sides except the N where there is a laneway. The abpve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX019-015

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
George Cruikshank, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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