Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockanruddig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanruddig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.88037, -9.34068
- SMR number
- KE094-091----
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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
New site identified by John Cronin & Associates (JCA) under Licence No. 16E0127 prior to wind farm development in Knockanruddig, Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry by ESB Wind Development Ltd. The remains of a roughly oval dry-stone enclosure, identified in the same boggy hilltop plateau as NICH27, near a long cut-away section of bog at ITM grid co-ord. 507698, 570649. The site consists of a roughly oval enclosure, long axis aligned north to south, measuring 15m by 8m. Its enclosing wall is 0.35m wide and consists of single stones, with some leaning on top of one another in the manner seen at other likely pre-modern walls in the northern half of the Grousemount windfarm site. The wall is 0.3m high but is not visible in some sections due to the stones being partly buried in peat. The feature was likely to have been used as an animal pen/enclosure.
See attached photograph courtesy John Cronin.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Cronin
Date of upload: 7 April 2022
References
Cronin, J. et. al. 2018 Grousemount Wind Farm, Kilgarvan, County Kerry Preliminary Final Archaeological Report. Excavation Licence: 16E0127. Prepared by: David Murphy and Dr. Eugene Costello, John Cronin & Associates On behalf of ESB Wind Development Ltd. Unpublished report.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.