Enclosure in Gullane Middle, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

Marked on the 1840-41 OS as a circular enclosure, this site also appears on the later edition of 1914- 15. A slight trace of a circular enclosure can be seen on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974). However, this site was levelled in 1986 and no surface trace survives today. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1015.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE001-019

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