Enclosure in Calverstown, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

In tillage. Visible on a 2005 OSi Orthophoto (pers. comm. Dr. Charles Mount, 29-05-2008). Visible as the soil mark of a roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 20m) together with the cropmark of an enclosing fosse (est. ext. diam. c. 60m), with faint traces of a second, outer fosse NE-ESE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD032-053

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