Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballydwyer East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydwyer East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25823, -9.56753
- SMR number
- KE030-081----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.