Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88982, -10.40569
- SMR number
- KE087-096----
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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
On the SE-facing slopes of Bray Head, in the NE corner of a field. A roughly rectangular area (19.5m N-S; 13m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 0.6m) along the W side, by a lynchet along the N and by a field boundary to the E. There is a house (KE087-096001-) within the NE corner of the enclosure. During excavations in 2001 (Hayden 2001), three sections through the W arc of the enclosure and another to the S of the house revealed the bank and a shallow ditch (Wth 1.6m; D 0.25m). Two raised cultivation beds, delimited by stone walls, were also uncovered within the enclosure, to the S of the house. (Mitchell et al. n.d.; Hayden 2001; Hayden 2003, 162)
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
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.