Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killeagh (Magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeagh (Magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17176, -9.53190
- SMR number
- KE048-143----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a barrow. Potential remains of an oval enclosure (dims. 38m ENE-WSW; 42m NNW-SSE) defined by traces of a levelled bank (Wth c. 7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m NE->E->SE; levelled out into a gentle hollow SE->W->NW; levelled downslope NW->N->NE. Incorporated into field as pasture. ESB pole within interior. Possible traces of levelled linear feature (long-axis NE-SW) extend to SW.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 5 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.