Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyhorgan South, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhorgan South
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.40614, -9.57783
- SMR number
- KE016-023----
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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
Internal diameter 90m NW-SE, 63m E-W
Lisduff/Lios Dubh (black ringfort). This large oval enclosure lies S of KE016-021----. Today this site has been much levelled and all that remains is a suboval raised area which rises to .5m-1m above the surrounding land. A fieldbank runs immediately to the NNW and a drain runs immediately to the W to S.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 610. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.