Enclosure in Garranearagh, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

This site is marked as a circular enclosure on the first edition of the OS map. It was located on the lower W slopes of Bentee mountain, in pastureland. An intersection of field boundaries marks the present location of the site, and a kink in the E-W wall may reflect the NW segment of the original enclosure. A barely discernible section of bank, 8.5m to S, may represent another part of the enclosing element or, perhaps, part of an internal feature. Cork University Press (1996), no. 814.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE079-062

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