Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballynaboul, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaboul
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24148, -9.47334
- SMR number
- KE040-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Monument on wet poorly drained land described in 1985 by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey as a roughly D-shaped mound (dims. 16m NE-SW x 11.5m SE-NW; H 0.65m) of burnt material with possible trough area to NW where the ground is waterlogged. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached plan of burnt mound, surveyed and drawn by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey and Google Earth orthoimage taken 03/04/2021
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.