What is recorded here
Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1842 and 1897 OS maps. Though levelled, it can be picked up on the Air Corps aerial photographs (1949), and it could still be seen from the air in 1991. Certain discolouration can be seen in the centre of this site which would suggest either house-sites or Man-made underground passages. There is a tradition of Man-made underground passages (KE020-057001-) in this vicinity, and these have been recorded by the Kerry Field Club (1948, 323). Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 706.
Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1842 and 1897 OS maps. Though levelled, it can be picked up on the Air Corps aerial photographs (1949), and it could still be seen from the air in 1991. Certain discolouration can be seen in the centre of this site which would suggest either house-sites or Man-made underground passages. There is a tradition of Man-made underground passages (KE020-057001-) in this vicinity, and these have been recorded by the…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE020-057
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- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Cathy Cox, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Nigel Cox, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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- Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Adrian Platt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Eileen Henderson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bernard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Robert Ashby, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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