Enclosure in Ardellis Upper, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (est. diam. c. 50m NE-SW) with a straight SW side (est. L c. 30m) enclosed by a back-filled fosse.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD031-041

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