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Barrow - bowl-barrow

Ballincollig, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - bowl-barrow, Ballincollig, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballincollig
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.29946, -9.61615
SMR number
KE030-080----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

'Located in the corner of a gently sloping field of the lower south – western slope of Ballincollig hill, the site affords expansive views to the southern half of the compass. The site is bounded on its southern and south-western sides by a small stream . The site is previously unrecorded and was brought to my attention by the landowner who described it as a small “Liss”. However, the extant remains seem to represent the large central platform of a ring-barrow, 20m in diameter and 0.5m higher than the surrounding land. An encircling ditch, on average 2m wide and 0.3m deep, can be traced around the northern and south-western sides of the site. Traces of a very denuded outer bank can also be seem to the south-west, where it remains to an internal height of 0.5m, external height of 0.3m and a width of 1.5m. The landowner also pointed out that the surviving ditch remained waterlogged throughout the year and stated that this was due to the presence of a spring, which was visible, in the south-western quadrant.The overall diameter of the site, where all elements are intact, is 26.5m.'

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: 20 June 2012

References

Connolly, M. 2000 The Earthen Barrows of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society No. 29, 40-54.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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