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Enclosure

Annagh Island, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Annagh Island, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Annagh Island
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.25696, -9.75892
SMR number
KE029-264----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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