Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
íochtar Cua, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- íochtar Cua
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1895-6).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.81071, -10.14860
- SMR number
- KE098-056----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This circular enclosure, marked on the first edition of the OS map, is located on the crest of a ridge overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay to NW. A collapsed drystone wall encloses a subcircular area measuring 14m N-S x 12.2m E-W. The wall survives .75m high and is 1.3m wide. A very small rectangular structure, measuring 1.2m x 1.65m internally, abuts the enclosure at N.
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. 744. 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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.