Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kerries West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kerries West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.27413, -9.76340
- SMR number
- KE028-115----
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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
'Located 25m east of recorded monument KE028-090---- is a surviving arc of earthen bank approximately 60m in length, which is observed by the curve of a modern field boundary. The bank is 0.65m in height and 5.9m in width. This arc of bank may be part of a large enclosure, as possible crop mark evidence suggests an enclosure, linking to this extant bank, with an approximate diameter of 124m. However, it may be that the undulations in the field are influencing this interpretation. Nevertheless the arc of bank and the flatness of the arc suggest the former presence of a large earthen-banked enclosure.'
Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008
Date of upload: 05 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.