Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Lounaghan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lounaghan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88144, -9.46418
- SMR number
- KE094-060001-
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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 the lower NE-facing slopes of Knockbrack Mountain. A linear relict field wall commences just E of a more recent N-S field boundary and extends to the ENE for a distance of 40m and then turns to the SE. At 13m from the NW end of the latter wall a branch extends to NE for a distance of 25m. There is an entrance (Wth 1.1m) along this wall which is defined by two upright stones, one at N (H 0.85m; 0.65m x 0.2m) and one at S (H 0.85m; 0.6m x 0.25m). The wall veers to the N beyond the entrance and continues for a distance of 35m, terminating at a modern E-W field wall. The walls cross an adjacent, meandering stream at a point near the start of the initial wall and towards the end of the final stretch of relict wall. The collapsed stone walls mainly protrude above a thin peat cover but some walls, which are exposed in cutaway bog, are set on underlying clay. A standing stone (KE094-060002-) and two possible fulachtaí fia (KE094-060003-, KE094-060004-) are located within this network of pre-bog field walls.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.