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
- 51.94775, -10.20445
- SMR number
- KE079-122----
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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
A short distance E of KE079-121---- is a second well-preserved ring-barrow. It consists of a subcircular area, 5.2m in diameter E-W, which is enclosed by a fosse, measuring 1.2m wide and up to .7m deep, and by an external bank. The bank is not preserved on the uphill, S side of the site. It rises at N to a maximum external height of .75m, where it features a possible causewayed entrance, 1.6m wide. The overall diameter of the monument averages 12.25m.
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. 442. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 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.