Sheepfold in Inchincoosh, enclosure in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

In rough hill pasture, on the precipice of a spur, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (8.5m E-W; 8.2m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.9m; H 0.4m). The entrance (Wth 0.8m) is at SE. Outcropping rock is incorporated into the wall S-SW. Loose stones are scattered within the interior and around the enclosure, externally. There is a hut site (KE085-022001-) c. 50m to the SW. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE085-022

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