Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Maughantoorig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maughantoorig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11616, -9.28697
- SMR number
- KE060-030001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope, c. 850m downslope of a large barrow (KE060-004001-). A circular area (diam. c. 13m) enclosed by a low bank (Wth. c. 1.5m; H 0.5m). The interior is slightly raised and is concave in profile. This ring-barrow was recorded as a 'fort' in Pat Cronin's land in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). A children's burial ground (KE060-030003-) is c. 15m to the W in the adjacent field.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.