Enclosure in Callanafersy West, County Kerry (KE056-051----)

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What is recorded here

In undulating pasture on top of a hillock, c. 400m NE of the Laune River. It is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a small subrectangular field (c. 50m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) and indicated on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as a semicircular enclosure in the NE side of a field. A modern house now occupies much of this site.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE056-051

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