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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located on a gentle S-facing slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. Circular area (diam. 30m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.7m at S). There is no visible fosse, and the original entrance cannot be identified. Rath (WA032-002----) is c. 30m to the NE on the other side of a NW-SE road. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload/revision: 26th September, 2011.

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