Enclosure in Rickardstown, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

Map note: Enclosure in Rickardstown is an enclosure around Rickardstown, County Kildare, Ireland. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.

Aerial photograph (GB89.AF.23) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing south-east.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD023-112

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