Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Scarteen (dunkerron South By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scarteen (dunkerron South By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91755, -9.72748
- SMR number
- KE083-023022-
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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
Within a field system (KE083-023002-) in rough hill grazing on a terrace on the S-facing slopes of Knockleama with views across the valley of the Blackwater River to Kenmare Bay. A circular area (diam. 8m) defined by large contiguous stone slabs (T 0.5m; H 0.8m), some of which are leaning or have fallen. The level interior is obscured by rushes and has been raised (H 0.8m) at S and cut into the upslope (D 0.6m) at N to compensate for the hillslope. An enclosure (KE083-023020-) is c. 15m to the SSW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.