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Enclosure in Annagh Island

Enclosure

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A low stone bank still circles an empty depression on Annagh Island, enclosing eight and a half metres of exposed ground within ten metres of the northern shore. Cattle use the completed ring as shelter, treating an ancient boundary like a ordinary trough in the wind. The island gives back neither date nor death chamber; it preserves a shape large enough to gather people and small enough to forget them.
'Located approximately 185m north of KE029-154----, above, this site is within 10m of the northern shoreline of Annagh Island on a low rise 2m above the shore. Again, it forms a focus for the second stand of bushes on the exposed island and is used as shelter by cattle. This site takes the form of a low stone bank enclosing an area 8.5m in diameter. The bank is on average 1.6m wide, 0.47m high internally and 0.5m high internally. The enclosed area is in effect a featureless round-bottomed depression but there is no doubt that the bank surrounds this and that it is man made.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 20 June 2012

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