Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballydowny, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydowny
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06894, -9.52924
- SMR number
- KE066-144006-
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
Discovered during archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of a housing development in 2002 (Kiely 2004c, 218-9). The ditch barrow (ext. 5.5m x 4m) consisted of a circular area defined by a fosse (Wth 0.4-0.5m; D 0.16-0.2m) ESE-N. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) faced NE. A cremation pit (0.25m x 0.16m; D 0.19m), which contained the cremated remains of an adult, occurred under the fosse at S and has been radiocarbon dated to the Iron Age (400-170 BC) (ibid.). A slot-trench, a hearth and a variety of stakeholes were also found to the E of the ditch barrow (ibid.).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.