Enclosure in Foxhill, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

In level improved mixed pasture and tillage. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 18) as the cropmarks of two closely spaced concentric fosses defining a large sub-rectangular area (est. max. c. 90m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD035-040

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