Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ardnamweely, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardnamweely
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06985, -9.51523
- SMR number
- KE066-143----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A penannular ring-ditch (int. diam. 6.5m), with the entrance at SE was excavated in 2001 prior to the construction of a housing estate (Dunne 2003b, 160-1, listed as Ballydribbeen). The fosse (Wth 0.4-0.6m; D 0.01-0.16m) increased in width to 0.85m on each side of the entrance (Wth 3.06m). At the S end of the ring-ditch, close to the entrance, a shallow pit containing the cremated remains of an adult male was found. Small quantities of cremated bone were also found at the N end of the ring-ditch. Two small bone objects in the cremation may be the remains of bone pins. Finds included a single sherd of decorated Bronze Age pottery from the interior and a whetstone from the fosse.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Workhouseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.