Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform
Sceilg Mhichíl, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77205, -10.53861
- SMR number
- KE104A001020-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a small terrace (KE104A001110-). The remains of a drystone-walled platform (L 2.4m; Wth 1.7m; H c. 1.2m), set against bedrock at the external base of the SE revetment wall of the main terrace (KE104A001105-), were revealed during restoration works (pers. comm. E. Bourke).
See attached aerial photograph showing the location of the platform, taken from Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property Management Plan 2020–30 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 01/01/2007.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 7 March 2022
References
Bourke, E., Hayden, A. and Lynch, A. 2011 Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry: the monastery and South Peak. Archaeological stratigraphic report: excavations 1986–2010 (E338; 90E34; 93E195). Dept. of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.