Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Clashatlea, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clashatlea
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.22416, -9.60366
- SMR number
- KE039-201001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
'Located in land that rises gently from the north to the south, at the eastern end of the Sliabh Mis, this site affords good views of the Stacks Mountains to the north and the low-lying land towards Castleisland to the east. This site was identified on colour aerial photography in a field that had at the time been cut for silage. The site consists of two small circular crop marks, clearly shown as dark lines, indicating a buried ditch, on the photograph. The crop marks are small with the more easterly being slightly smaller. The approximate size of the crop marks is 10m and 12m in diameter respectively. No trace of these features is visible at ground level.'
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: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.