Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Shronahiree More, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shronahiree More
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94992, -9.83116
- SMR number
- KE082-066----
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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 between the lower W slopes of Knockaunanattin and the Glashawee river is a group of pre-bog walls which covers an area c. 670m x c. 590m. Up to sixty stretches of linear and curvilinear walls occur, protruding .4m on average above the surface of the peat. Composed of rather large boulders and intermittent uprights, the walls are up to 1m wide and vary from 10m to 60m long. A number of long, rectilinear fields are apparent, enclosing areas that average 50m x 15m.
The poorly preserved foundations of a circular hut (KE082-066001-) occur towards the S end of the complex. Measuring 2.8m in maximum internal diameter, it features a 1.1m wide entrance gap at SW. A ruined enclosure (KE082-066002-), 4.2m x 3.6m, occurs 70m NE of the river. It consists of a circular line of boulders, with a .75m wide entrance gap at S. Some 270m to SE is a crudely built, subcircular enclosure (KE082-066003-) with an internal diameter of 3.8m x 3.25m. Its wall averages .95m thick.
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. 63. 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.