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This site commands an extensive view W and SW towards the Blasket islands from its bleak and windswept location just E of the summit of Mám Clasach, a high mountain pass between Croaghmarhin and Coumaleague hill. A sub-circular area, c. 17m N-S and 20m E-W, is enclosed by a shallow fosse, 1 to 2.5m wide and no more…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE042-133
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