Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
An Choill Mhór (Bar. Corca Dhuibhne), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Choill Mhór (Bar. Corca Dhuibhne)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.20934, -10.15738
- SMR number
- KE035-073027-
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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)
- 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
Enclosure described by Cuppage (1986, 25, no. 25 (L) ) as an; 'oval enclosure measuring 11m x 6.7m. The wall…survives for the most part only as a series of low orthostats and isolated boulders; there is a possible entrance gap at ENE.' The enclosure is abutted by a hut (KE035-073012-) and is shown on fig. 14 of Cuppage (ibid., 22-3).
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.