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Enclosure in Kerries East

Enclosure

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Enclosure in Kerries East is a lost circle in County Kerry, Ireland, reduced by ploughing and reseeding to a faint three-metre-wide ripple on the ground. It may have marked a home, a boundary or a place of gathering before the land was taken for grass, but that life has gone quiet. What remains is a ghost of shape, visible only when light rakes the field at an angle.
'This enclosure was initially identified from aerial photography but was located in an area where there have been extensive land improvements - all boundaries removed, land ploughed and reseeded as grassland. As such the site is very difficult to trace at ground level, however a short arc of low, broad bank is still visible to the east, The bank remains only as a slight undulation on the ground surface. It is 3.4m wide and has a height of only 0.15m. Effectively the site is completely destroyed at ground level.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 03 July 2012

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