Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.89089, -10.40767
- SMR number
- KE087-099----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 E end of the S slopes of Bray Head. This track is situated to the N of the track to the Signal Tower. It skirts the upper boundary of Field E (see Mitchell, Hayden and Walsh n.d., fig. 22) and then turns up hill to the N to follow the perimeter of an enclosure (KE087-025----). From here it continues W along the slope towards the settlement known as 'Crompeol' where it peters out. According to Mitchell, Hayden and Walsh (ibid.), it appears to lead to Crompeol and hence 'Bóthar na Crompeol' has been suggested as a name for this track. The construction date of this road has not been established.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.