Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Carran, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carran
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05605, -9.28676
- SMR number
- KE068-012----
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
In pasture, on top of a rounded hillock, with views S to The Paps of Dana. A circular area (9.8m N-S; 9.05m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.15m) and an outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.04m; ext. H 0.45m). Part of the bank is incorporated into a field boundary along the N arc. There is a break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at NNE and a possible entrance (Wth 2.85m) with a causeway at W. There is a mound of stones at the centre of the interior and a stone-filled depression immediately to its S. The entire ring-barrow is obscured by gorse and briars.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.