Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Deerpark (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06983, -9.50121
- SMR number
- KE066-106002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
These possible field walls are not visible at ground level. A network of relict field walls, covering an area c. 200m by c. 140m, is visible as a shadow site in an aerial photograph (OSAP, 2119-2120) taken in 1989. On the 1846 OS 6-inch map the area is covered in woodland and, according to local information, this oak woodland was cut down during World War 1. Two archaeological trial trenches in the area, undertaken because of a proposed housing development, revealed no features of archaeological significance (Bennett 1995, 44). The features that were visible in the aerial photograph were not apparent at ground level prior to trial trenching (pers. comm. I. Bennett). An enclosure (KE066-106001-), which is also visible in the aerial photograph, lies c. 300m to the SE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.