Enclosure in Mountcoal, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

Internal diameter 24m N-S, 32m E-W This site is situated on top of a hill, with excellent views in all directions. About 5m E of this site lies a quarry. The W side is cut by a fieldbank running in a NE-SW direction. This univallate rath has been much levelled and distorted. All that remains today is a sub-oval raised area which is on average 2.2m above the external ground level. To the SW an enclosing bank can be identified for c 14m; it is c 9m wide and .6m high. The interior is sloping SE. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 648.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE016-055

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