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Enclosure in Na Cluainte, County Kerry (KE042-045001-)

Enclosure

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KE042-045001-
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8 to 9m W of the Man-made underground passage KE042-045----, the remains of a semi-circular enclosure, of uncertain date and function, abut the S side of an E-W field boundary. An internal area, 13.8m E-W and 10.6m N-S, is enclosed by a low, stony bank now considerably gapped and no more than .3 to .4m high. It may have continued N of the boundary but that field has been reclaimed and no surface remains are evident. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 753.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE042-045001

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