Sheepfold in Ardkearagh, hut site in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

In rough hill pasture, on a break on the heather-clad NW-facing slopes of Trusk Mountain. The remains of a circular hut site (4m E-W; 3.8m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.65m; H 0.8m) with rubble scattered internally and externally. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE098-074

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