Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cinn Aird Thiar (tc Baile An Sceilg), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cinn Aird Thiar (tc Baile An Sceilg)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1846).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82748, -10.29579
- SMR number
- KE097-024----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A circular enclosure, bisected by an E-W field boundary, is marked at this location on the first edition of the OS map. It was located in rough pasture overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay to E and S. The S half of the site survives as a semicircular scarp which delimits a platform 1.1m high and 20.5m in diameter. Its E and W limits are sharply defined, while its S side slopes down gradually for 5.6m to surrounding ground level. No trace remains of the enclosure on the N side of the field boundary.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 757. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.