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Enclosure in Knockawaddra Middle

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Enclosure in Knockawaddra Middle
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Knockawaddra Middle holds a forgotten circular enclosure, now hidden beneath improved fields and visible only as a faint cropmark in aerial photography. The land has been changed repeatedly, yet a thin shadow of the original boundary still appears when light and growth align. What lived inside that small circle is no longer certain, but the ground remembers the shape even when people stop naming it.
'This site is located in lands that have been extensively improved and fields amalgamated. The site shows up on black & white aerial photography (1998) as a small cropmark indicating a univallate enclosure approximately 25-30m in diameter. There is no definite trace of the site at ground level, though undulations in the ground surface may represent the remains of an earthen bank.' 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: 09 July 2012

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