Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dooncaha, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooncaha
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.55337, -9.39981
- SMR number
- KE003-036----
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
Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, this site appears on the later edition as a sub- rectangular raised area. Today it consists of a sub- rectangular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, 3m-11 m wide at the base and up to 1.5m high externally and c .6m high internally. The interior is sloping SE, and contains a scattering of stones. A slight exterior fosse can be noticed for most of the site except to the NE. Elsewhere it is c 1m wide and .4m deep.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1021. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.