Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Barrakilla, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrakilla
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28512, -9.63588
- SMR number
- KE029-276----
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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
'This site was located in land that sloped down to the south-east and was identified on black an white aerial photography. The site showed up clearly and the photograph suggests that in 1998 the site still had a very low level enclosing bank approximately 4m wide, enclosing a sub-circular area measuring approximately 23m by 18m. The photograph suggest that, internally, there was a centrally placed mound or rise, which while it may represent a collapsed structure, would suggest the site may have been a barrow. The site was destroyed by housing in 2002.'
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: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.