Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
An Fearann Iarthach, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Fearann Iarthach
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77268, -10.15418
- SMR number
- KE106-118004-
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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
K106-118002- is known locally as a burial ground. It may have originally been a stone fort or an early ecclesiastical site. It is roughly circular in plan and is enclosed by a denuded stone wall.
Adjacent to the poorly preserved foundations of a circular hut (KE106-118003-), at N, appears to be the lintelled ope to a blocked souterrain KE106-118004-; this measures .85m x .45m.
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. 1004. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.