Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybrannagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrannagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.26775, -9.58758
- SMR number
- KE030-121----
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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 complex is situated on top of a limestone reef which affords extensive views to the north, east, south and west, the Paps mountains being visible to the east. The field in which this site is located is slightly marshy, and is predominantly devoted to grazing and rough pasture.....abutting the southern side of the enclosing element of the larger enclosure [KE030-120001-] is a ruinous sub-circular enclosure with a low central mound. These features are now heavily overgrown with irises and reeds. Total dimensions of the site are 14.0m N-S by 16.0m E-W although the southern extent of the enclosure is indistinct and overgrown. The bank has an average height of 0.50m and is 4.00m in average width. This bank surrounds a low circular central mound, 6.00m in diameter, and 0.45m in height.'
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: 30 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.