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Field boundary

Mangerton, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field boundary, Mangerton, 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
Mangerton
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.94546, -9.48134
SMR number
KE084-044001-

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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 the SW-facing slope of Mangerton Mountain, overlooking the valley of the Owbaun River to the SW. Sections of collapsed, drystone linear walls (T 1m; H 0.5m), which intersect each other at right angles in places, cover an area 350m E-W x 300m N-S. This network of relict walls is clearly visible where there is little peat cover. A typical section (L c. 130m) consists of an ENE-WSW wall which is adjoined by two N-S walls at its E and W terminals. These latter walls extend in a general N-S direction towards two small rivers, at N and S. There are two hut sites (KE084-044002-, KE084-044004-) within the E side of the network of field walls. The first of these hut sites (KE084-044002-) is 6m S of the ENE-WSW wall. The other hut site (KE084-044004-) and an enclosure (KE084-044003-) are 3m and c. 20m to the W of the N-S wall at E, respectively. There is a fulacht fia (KE084-044005-) to the SW, on the bank of the small S river.

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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