Enclosure, Kilquane, Co. Kerry

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Enclosure, Kilquane, Co. Kerry

In the townland of Kilquane in County Kerry, an enclosure sits in the landscape, recorded and numbered but not yet fully described.

It belongs to a category of monument found across Ireland, ranging from the circular earthen banks of ringforts, which served as defended farmsteads in the early medieval period, to later enclosures of uncertain or mixed purpose. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is precisely how little has been formally published about it. It is known to exist, it has been assigned a record, and yet the detail that would place it in time or explain its function remains out of general reach.

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