Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Meenogahane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenogahane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.44838, -9.78118
- SMR number
- KE008-001001-
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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
KE008-001---- is known locally as 'Lisheen', An Lisín (the little ringfort), is cut by a fine natural arch and lies S of Illaunamuck, Oileán na muc (island of the pigs). It consists of a stone wall which revetted a rock-scarp. It measures 34m long and has a maximum height of 2m above the fosse and 2m above the interior. The fosse, like the bank, is convex to the landward side.
Abutting the stone bank on its internal side at its NE end is a sub-rectangular house-site (KE008-001001-) measuring 5m x 10m; the walls are about 1m in thickness.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 110. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.