Enclosure in Barnacrow, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N372-3) as a small circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 20m). On a gentle SE-facing slope at the SE foot of the Hill of Allen (OD 676 feet) on wet but partially improved pasture where the surrounding field boundaries as shown on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch map have been removed. No visible surface trace of the feature survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD018-024

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Eoghan888 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Milltown GAA official website; individual photographer not stated, www.milltowngaa.com
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