Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Coarha Beg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coarha Beg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91049, -10.39927
- SMR number
- KE078-024----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This probable trackway consists of a layer of small cobbles which is exposed in the face of an 8m wide peat-cutting located near St Brendan's Well (KE078-005----), in the Imlagh Basin, Valencia Island. It occurs .75m to 1m below the present peat surface, and appears to be a diagonal section of a stone trackway. In a nearby cutting, 9m to W, a cross-section of it, .6m wide and .35m thick, is exposed. A peat sample taken from the level of this feature yielded a radiocarbon date of 1720±80 BP (Mitchell 1989, 73).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 24. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.