Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Booleenshare, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Booleenshare
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.41148, -9.81644
- SMR number
- KE014-021001-
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 as 'cave' on the 1842 OS map within the interior of a ringfort (KE014-021----). Not marked on the later 1916 map.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 463. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.