Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Cloghers, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghers
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25758, -9.70719
- SMR number
- KE029-280----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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) shows a small sub-circular crop mark at this location. The site shows clearly as a dark line and is approximately 15m 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: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.