Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Baile ícín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile ícín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.11484, -10.45914
- SMR number
- KE052-062----
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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
This site was described by Macalister (1899, 282) as a small, almost destroyed lios KE052-062----, measuring 7m in diameter. Three mounds (KE052-062001-, KE052-062002- & KE052-062003-) in the interior marked the foundations of 3 chambers. It was situated on a steep W facing slope overlooking the Blasket Sound and no visible trace survives.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1530. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.