Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Fionntrá, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fionntrá
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.12376, -10.37887
- SMR number
- KE052-043----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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 ring-barrow located on the sandy pasture land behind and overlooking Ventry strand has been severely disturbed by rabbit burrowing and by a disused field fence which runs onto the bank at E, and its outline is very irregular. It consists of an external bank up to .75m high, an inner fosse c. 6m wide, and a central mound which rises c. 0.75m above the fosse and which is c. 7m in diameter across its upper surface; the overall dimensions of the site are c. 40m N-S and 35m E-W. There are 3 major breaks through the bank; that to NNW is possibly original, but the others are apparently due to more recent disturbance. About 10 to 20m to S is a ringfort (KE052-044----).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 254. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.