Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Astee West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Astee West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55159, -9.56514
- SMR number
- KE002-053----
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
Faint outline of possible square-shaped enclosure located between two ringforts (KE002-054/052----) visible on Google earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2020, may be the result of post-1700 land reclamation rather than the remains of an antiquity.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 December 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.