Sheepfold in Inchee West, hut site in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

In boggy pasture, high on the NE slopes of Farraniaragh mountain, at the head of a tributary of the Finglas river. The foundations of a circular drystone hut beneath a collapsed sheepfold. A basal row of uprights, averaging 1m high, flank its inner wall-face. D: 3.1m x 2.6m. T: 1.6m. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1296.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE106-019

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