Enclosure in Clooncolla, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure. It also appears on the 1914-15 map with a quarry immediately to the N. This site has been levelled and no surface trace survives. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1068.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE016-017

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