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Enclosure

Skahies, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Skahies, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Skahies
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.15510, -9.56407
SMR number
KE048-194----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as extant banks. There is no visible surface trace of an earthwork at this location. Remains of two linear field boundaries (long-axis NW-SE) located adjacent to NE and SW of a backfilled quarry (recorded as KE048-193----). Linear feature to SW is a low, levelled bank and that to NE is a low scarp. These may have enclosed the quarry from the surrounding field, for safety or be part of an earlier field system. Some of these correspond to boundaries seen on earlier mapping, however they could also form an enclosure as this is the only distinct vantage point that overlooks motte, possible (KE048-190----) and could therefore be part of a larger archaeological landscape.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 8 September 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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