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Enclosure

Ballydwyer East, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballydwyer East, 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
Ballydwyer East
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.25823, -9.56753
SMR number
KE030-081----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

'The site is located in land that has been improved and reclaimed and slopes gently down to the south - south-west. Much of the surrounding land to the north and north-east is rocky and rough. The site affords good views of the Sliabh Mis to the south-west and the Lee Valley to the west - south-west. The site was noted on black and white aerial photography, no trace remaining at ground level. It consists of an oval to D-shaped crop mark enclosure........measuring 40m N-S by 75m E-W, with two smaller crop mark enclosures/features........approximately 8-10m in diameter, located internally - one centrally placed the other at the eastern end. The darkness of the cropmarks clearly suggests buried ditches.'

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

Nearby in the register

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

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