Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Cappagh (Glanarought By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (Glanarought By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85634, -9.49746
- SMR number
- KE093-054003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, on a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Sheen River. The remains of three field walls radiate from an enclosure (KE093-054----) and hut site (KE093-054002-). The walls are of drystone construction (T 0.6m; H 0.7m) and protrude from the peat (D 0.2-0.4m). The basal stones of the walls are relatively large. One wall externally abuts the enclosure at S and extends c. 30m to the SE. A second wall abuts the enclosure at NE and extends c. 25m to the N where it abuts a hut site (KE093-054004-). From here it curves to the SW for a further 60m. The third wall (L c. 65m) abuts the enclosure at E and extends to the E before curving to the NE. At its NE extremity this wall abuts the approximate centre of another curving NW-SE wall (L c. 60m).
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.