What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or ringfort in Lyre East (coshmore and Coshbride By.), County Waterford, Ireland. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of about 55 metres. That same account placed the site in pasture on a north-facing slope at the edge of a ravine to the north and recorded that it was not visible at ground level during the observation that formed the account.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a N-facing slope at the edge of a ravine to N, it is not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload: 27 August 2009

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