Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
An Luachair , County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Luachair
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.17675, -9.98642
- SMR number
- KE045-036----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The small enclosure marked on the OS maps and named 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan was levelled about 1980. It consisted of a low mound surrounded by a fosse and low external bank (information: T. Creedon), and its outline is still discernible as a cropmark. This latter indicates a diameter of about 12.5m from the outer edges of the fosse and an internal diameter of c. 7.7m. The land in the immediate vicinity is fairly level but falls away E and S towards the Emlagh river.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 256. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 4 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.