Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Gowlane (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowlane (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14198, -9.57335
- SMR number
- KE048-113001-
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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
In pasture, on a S-facing slope, with a view to Magillycuddy's Reeks. The remains of an enclosure (82m N-S; 76m E-W) defined by traces of a low earthen bank (Wth c. 2.5m; H 0.3m) NE-NW. There are intermittent, faint traces of an internal fosse (Wth 10m; D 0.4m). A children's burial ground (KE048-113002-) and an ogham stone (KE048-113003-) are in the interior. According to Dennehy (2001, 20-3), the occurrence of the ogham stone and ceallúnach together suggests the possibility that the enclosure is ecclesiastical in nature. (Dennehy 2001, 20-23).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.