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Barrow - unclassified

Ballynamaunagh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Ballynamaunagh, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynamaunagh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.08993, -9.47834
SMR number
KE058-101----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a low hill. A roughly circular raised area (27m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) which is slightly denuded along the S and W arcs. The bank is stone-faced externally, especially along the S, SW and N arcs and there cattle gaps at S and NNW. Field boundaries (on NW-SE and NE-SW axes) have been incorporated into this bank along the NE and SE arcs. The interior is almost entirely occupied by a central circular mound (diam. 1.6m; H 0.1m) which is surrounded by three concentric earthen banks (Wth 1.4-2.3m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.1-0.5m) and an arc of a fourth bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.1m), which is evident NW-NE. This is probably the 'Danish Fort' described in the 1840s as being in the SE end of Ballynamaunagh (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 5).

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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