Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballysheen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysheen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.36037, -9.69497
- SMR number
- KE021-020----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, in the NE corner of a large field. Depicted on the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a bank and incorporated into the E field boundary at N and SSE. On the OS 25-inch map (1892) it is depicted as a D-shaped area (29m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by a bank SE-NNE and by a linear field boundary NNE-SE.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 January 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.