Enclosure in Staigue, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

This small, rectangular enclosure, possibly a house site, is located in the field immediately E of Staigue Fort (KE099-13001-). Not marked on the OS maps, it measures 11.3m N-S x 9.7m E-W internally, and is defined by a low, severely denuded earthen bank, 1.5m wide. A 2.8m wide gap occurs at NW and may represent an entrance feature. Extending from the enclosure's SW angle is a low earthen bank, 32m long. On its S side are a series of old cultivation ridges (KE099-035001-). Cork University Press (1996), no. 771.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE099-035

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