Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Gortnagane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnagane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02937, -9.25266
- SMR number
- KE068-107----
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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 rough hill pasture, on the N-facing slopes of The Paps of Dana. A circular sod-covered mound (diam. 7m; H 1.2m) of earth and stones with an uneven top and sloping sides. The remains of two small stone-built lintelled structures, built against the mound at SE and SW, are most likely to be animal shelters and post date the mound. The function of the mound is uncertain. An enclosure (KE068-046----) lies c. 30m to the SE and a hut site (KE068-108----) is c. 115m to the ENE.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.