Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Releagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Releagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79606, -9.58005
- SMR number
- KE102-088011-
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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
In rough hill pasture, on a SE-facing slope, in the valley of the Esk stream. Collapsed stone walls protrude above the surface of the bog at irregular intervals throughout a trapezoidal area c. 420m NW-SE x c. 400m NE-SW. One curvilinear wall (T 0.7m; H 0.4m) runs upslope from the Esk stream to the NW for c. 200m. It runs into deeper bog on level terraces and reappears on the slopes. Nine hut sites (KE102-088001, KE102-088002, KE102-088003-, KE102-088005-, KE102-088006-, KE102-088007-, KE102-088008-, KE102-088009-, KE102-088010-) and an enclosure (KE102-088004-), which were recorded in the NW portion of this network of field boundaries in 2000, were found to have been levelled on a subsequent inspection in 2007. Some of the walls in the vicinity of the hut sites and enclosure had also been levelled.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.