Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyard, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyard
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25635, -9.71809
- SMR number
- KE029-267----
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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
'Infra-red aerial photography (National Coastline Survey) clearly shows a crop mark enclosure at this location on rising ground overlooking the River Lee to the north-north-east. The site shows up as a dark line and is approximately 33m in diameter. There is no trace of this site at ground level.'
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.