Ring-ditch in Mountfin Upper, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a gentle S-facing slope, with a NW-SE stream c. 100m to the S. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is visible on the oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: AYJ 88). No feature is visible at ground level. The rath (WX014-016001-) is c. 90m the the ESE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX014-016002

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