Sheepfold in Carrigeencullia, enclosure in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

In a farmyard, with views SE to The Paps of Dana. Indicated on the 1893-4 OS 6-inch map as a roughly triangular enclosed area (c. 5m WNW-ESE; projecting c. 10m to the SSW) abutting a field boundary at WNW. This enclosure is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE067-026

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