Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Currabeg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currabeg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheepfold
- Coordinates
- 51.86984, -9.52980
- SMR number
- KE093-074----
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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 level area with outcropping rock overlooking Kenmare Bay to the W. The remains of an oval enclosure (4m E-W; 3m N-S) defined by a roughly built drystone wall (T c. 0.4m; H 0.9m) constructed on a base of large stones. The enclosure is densely overgrown with ferns. It is indicated as an enclosed rectangular area on the 1895 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.