Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortdromakiery, County Kerry, Ireland
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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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 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.