Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glantrasna, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glantrasna
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.78051, -9.68902
- SMR number
- KE109-073001-
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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 S-facing slope, to the N of a tributary of the Glantrasna River. An oval area (15.8m E-W; 14m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (T c. 1.1m; H 0.8m) which is cut (D 0.7m) into the upslope at N and built up (H 0.8m) externally at S. The wall survives best NW-NE with the lower course stones exposed along the inner face. The wall is totally collapsed NE-NW with the rubble spilling downslope to the S. The lower course stones protrude above the bog and are partly grassed over. Two hut sites (KE109-073002-, KE109-073003-) are located within the NW and SE sector of the enclosure, respectively. There is another hut site (KE109-073004-) immediately to the SE.
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.