Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Aghacurreen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghacurreen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09487, -9.56062
- SMR number
- KE058-421----
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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)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level, low-lying area of improved pasture. Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of a large C-shaped bank. There is no visible surface trace of an earthwork at this location. The W side of this field is low-lying and has a dense growth of tall rushes. A large curvilinear C-shaped feature is evident upon aerial photography (OSi 2010 and Bing 2015), to W. No potential feature depicted at this location upon OS historic mapping.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 13 January 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.