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Settlement cluster

Cloghfune (Magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Cloghfune, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloghfune (Magunihy By.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
51.99024, -9.53503
SMR number
KE074-045----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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

Located within Killarney National Park on remote stony heather-covered hill pasture on W-facing slopes with views to the Upper Lake. A field system and house are indicated on the OS 6-inch map. These are the largely collapsed remains of an abandoned 18th-/19th-century settlement. The roofless and partially collapsed house remains (int. 5.4m NE-SW; 3.2m NW-SE) have a masonry stone and clay mortar wall (H 1-2m; T 0.7m) with a door opening at NW. Part of the SE gable is intact. An animal enclosure abuts the SE corner externally. The roughly constructed field walls, in the surrounding area, are collapsing. There are several large field clearance cairns in some of the fields. From a distance they look like small bee-hive huts.

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.

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