Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Ardkearagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkearagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80079, -10.17015
- SMR number
- KE098-088001-
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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 site, not marked on the OS maps, is located on a level terrace on the lower NW slopes of Farraniaragh mountain, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay to W. It comprises a small, poorly preserved enclosure.
Enclosure: The area enclosed is of subcircular plan and measures 19m N-S x 14m EW internally. The enclosing wall does not survive at N and is partly overlain by a field boundary at S. Elsewhere its stony core is faced both internally and externally with uprightslabs set on edge. Some large boulders are included in the external facing. At E, in its best preserved section, it averages 1.6m wide and stands up to 1m high. No feature resembling an entrance is identifiable.
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. 925. 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.