Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Banemore, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banemore
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.37793, -9.53594
- SMR number
- KE016-073----
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
This site commands a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside especially SW through NW. It is a roughly oval-shaped area with an overall diameter of c 11m NW-SE and 14m NE-SW. An external earthen bank 2.5m-3m wide and on average 1m high encloses an internal area which rises to a mound 4.6m NW-SE and 7.05m NE-SW. The interior is sloping NW and in the interior of the SE sector a hollow sound was noted, as if something lay beneath. Local stories speak of a chieftain being buried there.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 87. 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.