Enclosure in Cappateige, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

On the 2nd edition of the OS map, this site is represented by a sub-circular broken line, infilled with the symbol for rough pasture or uncultivated ground, with a narrow tail extending N for c. 50m. It survives as a roughly circular spread of stones measuring 28m N-S x 32m E-W and raised slightly above the external ground level on the downhill N side. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1559.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE035-053

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