Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Glanshearoon, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanshearoon
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.24306, -9.45834
- SMR number
- KE040-009----
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
Levelled monument described in 1985 by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey as site of a levelled earthwork that was levelled c. 1935 which is visible as a slight rise of ground. Depicted as a polygonal shaped earthwork transected at E by a field boundary running N-S on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not indicated on 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 03/04/2021
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.