Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyseedy, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyseedy
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25382, -9.66933
- SMR number
- KE038-119----
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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
'Again located on limestone outcrop, affording good views to the south and west. This site is difficult to trace on the ground, though the enclosing bank can be seen curving over the slope of the reef to the north and to the west. The bank is represented by very low remains elsewhere. Where it survives it is composed of earth and stone 2.4m in width and only 0.25m in height. Aerial photography shows the site to be a circular enclosure measuring 60m in diameter.'
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.