Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Kerries East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kerries East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28160, -9.74499
- SMR number
- KE029-283----
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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 is located to the north of RMP KE029-110----, a complex of three small enclosures and a series of stone field boundaries associated with the enclosures, on the south side of a small east-west flowing stream in marshy land. The site consists of a horseshoe shaped grass-covered mound, opening to the east and measuring 12.7m N-S and 14.2m E-W to the extent of the arms of the crescent and 0.85m in height. The large east facing rectangular trough area measures 4m N-S and 5.1m E-W. This area is wet a densely covered in a growth of irises, while the well drained stone filled mound is grass covered.'
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: 03 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.