Field boundary in Derrysallagh, County Kerry (KE101-015001-)

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What is recorded here

In rough hill pasture, on a SE-facing slope, overlooking Cummer Lough and the valley of the Dromoghty River. Collapsed drystone walls (T 0.8m; H 0.4m) protrude above the surface of the bog over an irregular shaped area (c. 900m E-W; c. 1.05km N-S). The walls are most clearly exposed in cutaway bog in the SE sector. There is a standing stone (KE101-015002-), a standing stone pair (KE101-015004-), an enclosure (KE101-015005-), a fulacht fia (KE101-015006-), a stone row (KE101-015007-) and a cashel (KE101-015008-) within this network. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE101-015001

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