Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Aghanacrinna, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghanacrinna
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.36486, -9.67767
- SMR number
- KE021-025002-
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
Lying just S of a small stream, with a fairly good view in all directions, univallate rath KE021-025---- has been much levelled by cattle.
About 9.5m NE of this rath is an oval raised area (KE021-025002-), 14m N-S and 10m E-W internally. It rises to c 1.4m above the external ground level. This mound is possibly connected to the rath in some way.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 711. 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.