Field boundary in Bray, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

On the well-drained SE facing slopes of Bray Head, Valencia Island, overlooking the entrance to Portmagee Channel. Traces of broad cultivation ridges and field boundaries occur in the vicinity of buildings and extend outwards over a wider area. A 3.3m stretch of a field wall (KE087-021002-) is located 7m SSW of the most northerly of the group of huts. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1135.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE087-021002

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