Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Baile An Reannaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Reannaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.17890, -10.38815
- SMR number
- KE042-057002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
Houses described by Cuppage (1986, 250) as; 'located at the base of a small promontory on the S shore of Smerwick Harbour. It was here that a storm at the end of the 18th century exposed 7 ogham stones, a possible fragment of an ogham stone, a cross-inscribed stone, a number of graves and quantities of bone, and the ruins of several houses (Windele 1848, 145; Chatterton 1839, 190). Chattetton describes the houses as being beyond the mound nearer the sea. Windele interpreted these as the remains of an ancient village, but it has also been suggested that one of the structures, roughly 20 feet x 12 feet (6 x 3.7m), was a church (Curran no. 21)'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Chatterton, Lady G. 1839 Rambles in the south of Ireland in the year 1838, 2 vols. London. Saunders and Otley.
Windele, J. 1848 Excursions in Kerry. Royal Irish Academy MS 12 C 11.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.