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Enclosure in Kilkea Upper

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What is recorded here

Visible on an aerial photograph (GB95.FS.29) as a cropmark of a broad fosse which appears superimposed on an earlier enclosure to the N (KD037-038001-). This is probably the oval enclosure shown on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1837).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD037-038003

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • 瑞丽江的河水, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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