Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballymacthomas, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacthomas
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25221, -9.62859
- SMR number
- KE038-145----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
'Situated on top of a low limestone outcrop in a reclaimed field on the immediate south side of the above complex [KE038-147---- to KE038-153----]. This reef affords splendid views on all sides, but especially towards the south.....on the immediate western side of [Hut KE038-146----] is a 1.00m high grass-covered mound of what appears to be loose stone. This mound is 8.00m N-S by 6.00m E-W.'
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.