Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymacthomas, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacthomas
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25394, -9.62986
- SMR number
- KE038-148----
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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
'Situated in a field on the immediate eastern side of a tributary of the River Lee. The portion of land on which these sites occur slopes gently westwards. The main features within the complex are earthen enclosures, small mounds, a linear earthwork and a possible barrow with portions of double banks remaining. All of these sites are partially denuded due to reclaimation, this field still being slightly marshy despite efforts to reclaim the land for the purposes of pasture.............a similar enclosure [to KE038-147----], again sub-circular in shape is situated near the river. In this case there does not seem to have been a complete enclosure, as the steep scarp nearest the river was utilised as the westernmost enclosing element of the enclosure. Total dimensions N-S are 35.0m by 20.0m E-W. The stone and earth bank has an average width of 6.00m, is 0.40m high externally and has an internal height of 0.70m. The interior is featureless and slightly marshy.'
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: 2 May 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.