Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Kilcock Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcock Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52436, -9.55817
- SMR number
- KE005-101----
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
Situated in poorly drained scrubland 160m NNE of a ringfort (KE005-027----), and 20m S of the townland boundary with Kilcock Lower. Outline of ring-barrow (approx. overall diam. 16m) visible as a circular area of scrub on the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) 1995 Black & White aerial orthophotograph. On the OSI 2005 orthophotograph it is visible as a central circular-shaped mound enclosed by an inner fosse and outer bank. The monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
See attached Google earth aerial photographs taken 16/03/2106 and 10/02/2009 showing outline of monument
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara & Ms Richa Marwaha
Date of upload: 19 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.