Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrignafeela (trughanacmy By., O'Brennan Par.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrignafeela (trughanacmy By., O'Brennan Par.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.27407, -9.60427
- SMR number
- KE030-075----
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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 enclosure survives as a quadrant of a circle in a reclaimed field now used for grazing, on a south sloping hillside which affords panoramic views from east through south to west. It is marked on the OS 3rd Ed 1938 map as a semi-circular enclosure which observed the existing field boundaries. One half of this site has been subsequently destroyed, however the line of the bank can still be traced on the ground, averaging 6.0m wide and 0.20m above existing ground surface. Overall dimensions of the site is 50m N-S by 25m E-W. This E-W measurement only reflects the existing site. No trace of the enclosure could be discerned in the field to the west, however this field has undergone reclaimation and intensive cultivation. The remaining bank of the enclosure still functions as a field boundary, and is 1.25m high by 5.0m wide. This bank is constructed of small stones and earth, and is considerably more substantial than any field boundary in this area.'
Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97.
Date of upload: 4 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.