Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballymacthomas, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacthomas
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.24776, -9.63013
- SMR number
- KE038-143----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
'In the same large amalgamated field as the above site [KE038-091----], on a similar limestone reef is a low sub-circular stone-filled mound, 0.30m in maximum height and measuring 7.00m N-S by 6.00m E-W. A central depression measuring 2.00m N-S by 1.00m E-W is located 0.20m below the crest of the mound.'
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.