Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coomnakilla South, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coomnakilla South
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.86979, -9.73018
- SMR number
- KE092-020001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a coniferous forest, on a NW-facing slope. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) is visible on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 94-5), taken in 1973. It is not visible at ground level. A second possible enclosure (KE092-020----) visible in the same aerial photograph lies c. 30m to the NNW.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.