Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Mounthawk, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mounthawk
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28176, -9.72390
- SMR number
- KE029-296----
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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
'Three potential areas of archaeological interest were identified during monitoring of initial development work at a new estate in Mounthawk, Tralee...........A pit and stake-hole underlay the topsoil and cut the natural. No datable material or artefacts were recovered from either cut feature. A linear feature, 8m x 0.7m and 0.1m deep, aligned north-south, was located 25m from the features above but is interpreted by the excavator as a cultivation feature. To the north of the above a small pit and a burnt deposit were noted. No dateable evidence was recovered from either feature.'
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: 10 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.