Enclosure in Mountprospect, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N 427-9) as the cropmark of a small circular area (est. max. diam. c. 30m), apparently defined by a narrow fosse. At the N foot of a very gentle pasture slope. No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD017-036

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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James Allan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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