Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Dromteewakeen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromteewakeen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96442, -9.79479
- SMR number
- KE082-011----
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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
Located a short distance SE of KE082-010----, this intra-peat stone trackway occurs in a peat-cutting on the S side of a low, elongated, peat-covered ridge known as Coimin an Chosáin (Ó Cíobháin 1978, 116). It runs NNW- SSE and is exposed for a distance of 7.3m. Formed of large, carefully laid slabs, it varies between 1.4m and 2m wide. It runs into a 1.35m high peat-face at NNW, where it is overlain by .65m of peat. Peat derived from immediately beneath one of the slabs of the trackway yielded a radiocarbon determination of 2820±50 BP (McDonnell 1991, 36).
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. 41. 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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.