Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Emlaghpeastia, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emlaghpeastia
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.89050, -10.28402
- SMR number
- KE088-009----
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Shown on 4 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
Occurring in an area of extensive blanket bog which overlooks the Portmagee Channel are three parallel intra-peat walls. The wall at E runs NE-SW, measures 44m long, and is composed mostly of large boulders. On its W side is a 37m stretch of wall, overlain by peat for most of its length. Its SW end runs into a .6m high face of peat. Only a 4m length of the third stretch of wall is exposed.
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. 46. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.