Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Beginish (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beginish (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.93526, -10.29777
- SMR number
- KE079-057----
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Shown on 4 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
A series of four shallow circular depressions is located on the SE edge of Beginish Island, midway between Cruppaunroe and Canroe, just below the last modern field boundary. Two depressions at N occur 2.4m apart and a further two, located 12m to S, are set 6m apart.
(1) KE079-057----; The depression at NW measures 3.75m N-S x 3.4m E-W in diameter and its flat-bottomed interior occurs .3m below surrounding ground level. It is the best preserved of the four features.
(2) KE079-057001-; The NE depression measures 3.3m N-S x 3.2m E-W and its flat-bottomed interior occurs .24m below surrounding ground level. Its E side is defined by a low bank, which averages .65m wide and .2m in external height.
(3) KE079-057002-; The SE depression is poorly defined and has an overall diameter of 2.9m. Its interior is largely filled with beach stones.
(4) KE079-057003-; The SW depression measures 3m N-S x 3.2m E-W in diameter and its saucer-shaped interior is .25m below surrounding ground level. Remnants of a possible bank occur along its S edge.
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. 1478. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.