Enclosure in Kilbrenan, County Mayo

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What is recorded here

Map note: Enclosure in Kilbrenan appears on the map as an enclosure around Kilbrenan, County Mayo, Ireland. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA090-039

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John D. Reigh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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