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Enclosure

Cummeenduvasig, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cummeenduvasig, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cummeenduvasig
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.94213, -9.49883
SMR number
KE084-004001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough hill pasture, on a SE-facing slope near the head of the Owbaun River. A circular area (diam. 12m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.7m). The wall forms a pronounced point at the S. The S portion of the interior is raised and the N portion is cut into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. However, the interior still retains a slope (L c. 3m) down from the N wall to the SE and then levels off. A rectangular and a circular arrangement of stones in the S half of the interior appear to be of recent origin. A rectangular area (dims. c. 6m x 7m) poorly defined by stones abuts the outer edge of the enclosure wall at E. A wall from a network of field boundaries (KE084-004002-) extends from the SE corner of this rectangular area.

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.

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