Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ceathrúin An Phúca,móin An Fhraoigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrúin An Phúca,móin An Fhraoigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.13429, -10.33161
- SMR number
- KE053-001----
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Shown on 4 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
Internal diam. 21.3m N-S, 29m E-W
The univallate enclosure marked on the OS maps is now reduced to an oval area of bare ground surrounded by a band of soil strewn with small stones. This latter is a maximum of 5m wide. A smaller oval area in the centre is similarly defined and is all that remains of a hut measuring 7m E-W x 4.75m N-S internally. There is a 2 to 2.75m wide entrance gap in the S side of the latter. On an aerial photograph taken in 1949 (Ministry of Defence, V. 158/102), this site appears as an oval enclosure with a single bank and fosse. It lies at the E end of a low ridge overlooking Dingle Harbour. (see KE052-050----)
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 725. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.