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Barrow - unclassified

Barrakilla, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Barrakilla, 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
Barrakilla
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.28512, -9.63588
SMR number
KE029-276----

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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

'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

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

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