Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Abbey Island, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey Island
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.75780, -10.14355
- SMR number
- KE106-077006-
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
For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 344, no. 1084, 'In 1988, excavations were undertaken c. 15m outside the present graveyard wall…').
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
References
Power, C. and Doody, M. 1988 Archaeological excavations on Abbey Island, Darrynane. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 21, 166-70.
O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. 1996 The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry. Cork University press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.