Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahersiveen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94492, -10.21406
- SMR number
- KE079-047001-
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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)
- 1841 · 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 rough heather and gorse-covered hill grazing on shallow bog, on the N-facing slopes of Bentee, overlooking Cahersiveen and Valencia Harbour. The remains of linear and curvilinear field walls (T 0.55m; H up to 0.8m), which are largely obscured by overgrowth, protrude above the surface of the bog in a roughly rectangular area (c. 110m NW-SE; c. 70m NE-SW). The wall remains consist of both boulder and slab type stones. There is a hut site (KE079-047----) in the NW portion of the field system. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 394, no. 1176)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.