Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.11285, -10.40366
- SMR number
- KE052-100----
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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
Marked on the 1st edition of the OS maps as a circular enclosure with clochaun, this site appears to have been considerably modified by 1895 (2nd edition, OS map), and no trace of the enclosure now survives. The hut has also been partly destroyed. It was a circular corbelled drystone structure, 3.85m in diameter internally. The surviving wall is 1.75m high and 1.2m thick. Shells, animal bones and evidence of burning were discovered in the interior (Macalister 1899, 215-6; local information).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 712. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.