Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Carrig Island, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrig Island
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57657, -9.50213
- SMR number
- KE002-008006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Field system in NW quadrant of monastic site situated on low-lying pastureland, with excellent views in all directions. A large early ecclesiastical site (KE002-008003-) not marked on the OS maps but shows up quite clearly on aerial photographs taken by the Survey in 1987. The enclosing banks are cut in several places by various field banks and a boreen or roadway cuts through the N sector of the ecclesiastical enclosure in a NW-SE direction (Toal 1995, 208).
See attached site plan of earthworks taken from North Kerry Archaeological Survey
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 830. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
References
Toal, C. 1995 North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.