Enclosure in Sheheree, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a N-facing slope. Visible as the cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims. 30m to NW-SE) with a straight SE side (L c. 70m) on an aerial photograph (OSAP, 3748) taken in 1983. The enclosure is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE067-029

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