Enclosure, Manor, Co. Kerry

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Enclosure, Manor, Co. Kerry

In the townland of Manor in County Kerry, a scheduled monument sits in the landscape carrying one of the more quietly evocative labels in the archaeological record: simply, an enclosure.

The designation covers a broad range of features in Irish archaeology, from early medieval ringforts used as defended farmsteads to later manorial boundaries, and without further detail it is difficult to say precisely what form this one takes. That ambiguity is itself part of the interest. Kerry is a county where the ground holds an unusual density of such features, many of them unexcavated and observed only from the surface or from aerial photography, their interiors unread.

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