Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.90019, -10.40220
- SMR number
- KE087-075----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This stretch of stone trackway is exposed in a drain, which links two peat-cuttings, approximately 15m ESE of KE087-074----. Occurring at a depth of 1m, the somewhat disturbed trackway appears to consist of a single layer of stone slabs measuring 1.2m wide and running approximately E-W. Phragmites peat from the same level as the trackway yielded a radiocarbon date of 2920±80 BP (Mitchell 1989, 64-65).
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. 16. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.