Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Hillgrove, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hillgrove
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94756, -10.20502
- SMR number
- KE079-121----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This site is located on the lower NE slopes of Bentee mountain and commands a fine view of the estuary of the Ferta river to N. An almost oval-shaped area, measuring 6.2m N-S x 7.2m E-W, is enclosed by a fosse and by a poorly preserved external bank. The overall diameter of the site averages 12m. The bank is best preserved at W, where it measures 1.6m wide and rises .25m externally. The fosse is flat-bottomed, varies in width from 1.3m to 2.5m, and averages .5m below the interior of the monument. The site's interior slopes steeply downwards to N. There is no apparent entrance to the site.
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. 441. 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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.