Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boolasallagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolasallagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14323, -9.60137
- SMR number
- KE048-231----
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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
Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a curving bank. Sub-circular area (dims. 36m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by remains of bank (wth at top 2m; total wth 5.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.35m) of earth and stone SW->WNW and traces of levelled bank WNW->N->ESE. Truncated by linear field boundary (long-axis E-W) across SE-sector. Fosse (basal wth 3.5m; total wth 5.9m; Dth 0.4m) SW->N->NNE. Interior slopes down to E and monument is incorporated into field as pasture. Best preserved portion of bank is evident on modern aerial photography (OSi 2010). No visible surface trace of monument in pasture field adjacent to SE.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.