Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Curraghweesha, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghweesha
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49262, -9.61147
- SMR number
- KE005-100----
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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
From aerial photographs, this sub-circular enclosure could possibly be an early ecclesiastical enclosure. It would appear to measure c 396m N-S and c 330m E-W. However, no documentary evidence or local tradition attest to a monastic site being sited here.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 831. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 13 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.