Enclosure in Maganey Lower, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 52) shows a cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (est. max dims c. 70m E-W x 50m N-S) defined by double fosse at W-N-E and a single fosse elsewhere. Entrance at the E through both fosses. Quarrying encroaches on the site at the S. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD039-002

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