Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Gortanahaneboy West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanahaneboy West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenatumpaun
- Coordinates
- 52.06253, -9.28546
- SMR number
- KE068-011----
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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 SE-facing slope, with views S to The Paps of Dana. A circular area (9.65m NE-SW; 8.85m NW-SE) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.1m) and an external bank (Wth 2.72m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.5m). The bank is incorporated into a linear field boundary at S. The entrance, with a causeway, is at E (Wth 2.5m), and at W (Wth 3.5m). A linear bank (Wth 1m; H 0.5m) extends (c. 14m) to the N from the exterior at NW. Coniferous trees grow in and around the ring-barrow. It was recorded in the 1840s as 'Lisheenatumpaun' in the centre of which was a 'stone lying flat on the surface of the earth' (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 36). It is probably the 'lios' referred to in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry) on Michael Kelliher's land. Another ring-barrow (KE068-011001-) lies c. 20m to the NE.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.