What is recorded here
Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope with a SE-NW stream c. 200m to the SW. Marked as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level in a cereal crop. Rath (WX011-003----) is c. 50m to the WSW, and the possible rath (WX011-045----) is c. 160m to the ESE. It is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (14/07/2018).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2018)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 1 April, 2012
Amended: 23 July 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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