Enclosure in Mullaghroe Upper, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N 414-5) as the cropmark of a possible large, circular enclosure. On level pasture overlooking slightly lower ground NW-N-NE. The cropmark was not visible at ground level in 1986 (SMR file).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD021-013

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