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Enclosure

Bray, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Bray, 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
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 Libraries

2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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