Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Na Gleannta Thuaidh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Gleannta Thuaidh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.19854, -10.26484
- SMR number
- KE034-147001-
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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
Roughly triangular-shaped enclosure described by Cuppage (1986, 414, no. 1344) as follows; 'In rough mountain terrain at the head of Com Amhais. A circular corbelled drystone structure, with 2 wall recesses in the interior, 1 possibly a window. This is located at NE angle of a large, roughly triangular enclosure now barely discernible. Other structures built up against the wall of this enclosure may have been sheep-shelters or-folds'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.