Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Kerries West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kerries West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.27294, -9.76048
- SMR number
- KE029-303002-
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) indicates the presence of two possibly conjoined ditched features (KE029-303001-, KE029-303002-) in this area. No trace of the sites is visible on the ground. The features are orientated NW-SE with the slightly smaller example to the north-west. The larger example is circular with an approximate diameter of 18m. The smaller example is again circular with an approximate diameter of 15m. Both buried ditches clearly show as dark lines on the infra red photograph.'
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: 06 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.