Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knocknadarriv, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknadarriv
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.27060, -9.31655
- SMR number
- KE032-018----
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Enclosure not depicted as an antiquity on OSI 6-inch maps and described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as a 'fort' where they were refused access to the site by the landowner' (SMR file). Outline of possible 'fort' not visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. According to local folklore collected from Lackbrooder School this was known locally as 'a Fairy Fort' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0450, Page 149; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4713231/4709630/4760321).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Boundary mound1 mi
- Boundary mound2 mi
- Boundary mound2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.