Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Blennerville, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blennerville
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25427, -9.73258
- SMR number
- KE038-165----
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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
'Located on the south-eastern side of the village of Blennerville in the north-east corner of a small square field. This site consists of three low, distinct mounds that surround a probably natural depression used as a trough. The mounds measure from the most northerly to the most southerly:.... 7m by 5.5m,....6.3m by 5m and......6m by 4.3m all remain to between 0.6 and 0.8m in height. The trough area opens to the east -north-east and measures 6.8m by 5.6m. It takes the form of an elongated depression ringed by the three distinct mounds.'
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: 19 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.