Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Annagh Island, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh Island
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25696, -9.75892
- SMR number
- KE029-264----
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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
'Located approximately 185m north of KE029-154----, above, this site is within 10m of the northern shoreline of Annagh Island on a low rise 2m above the shore. Again, it forms a focus for the second stand of bushes on the exposed island and is used as shelter by cattle. This site takes the form of a low stone bank enclosing an area 8.5m in diameter. The bank is on average 1.6m wide, 0.47m high internally and 0.5m high internally. The enclosed area is in effect a featureless round-bottomed depression but there is no doubt that the bank surrounds this and that it is man made.'
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: 20 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.