Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bunbinnia, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunbinnia
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96375, -9.73103
- SMR number
- KE083-001----
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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
Overlooking Cummeenduff Glen from a rocky plateau on the SE facing slopes of Broaghnabinnia is a complex of three drystone structures, not marked on the OS maps. The largest, at W, is a roughly constructed subcircular enclosure which measures 9.5m x 6.8m internally. Its wall survives .7m in height and .75m in width. Immediately at E are two subrectangular enclosures, possibly hut sites, which may be more recent in date. They have internal dimensions of 4.8m x 2.1m (KE083-001001-) and 4.4m x 2.2m (KE083-001002-), and their walls survive .6m high and .8m wide on average.
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. 711. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.