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Enclosure

Gortdromakiery, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gortdromakiery, 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
Gortdromakiery
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.01387, -9.44776
SMR number
KE075-010001-

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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

In level pasture, at the bottom of a steep NW-facing slope. In the 1930s, Capt. D.B. O'Connell noted that there was a 'slight mound which does not appear a natural formation' in the centre of a large field sloping down from a farmhouse (SMR file). Surrounding this mound was 'an eccentric circle of about a dozen large flagstones most of which appear on the surface as slight mounds. One is entirely uncovered and some others partly so' (ibid.).There are no visible remains of this enclosure. A shallow semicircular depression (9.5m NE-SW; D 0.25m) with a straight NE side (L 12m) formed by a NW-SE field boundary, may mark its location. There are numerous stones and large rocks scattered along the field boundary. O'Connell also noted a steep-sided depression in the ground, similar to a pond. There is a possible souterrain in this enclosure (KE075-010002-).

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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