Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glanrastel, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanrastel
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.75091, -9.71555
- SMR number
- KE109-089002-
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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, to the W of a stream, on a break on the SW-facing slope of Cummeenbaun Mountain. A circular area (9m E-W; 8.9m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth c. 0.85m; H 0.1-0.2m) which is cut (D 0.65m) into the upslope at N. The interior is level. Rabbit-burrowing to the SW of the enclosure has exposed chunks of charcoal suggesting that the enclosure may have been used as a charcoal-making site for the iron smelter (KE108-076----) in Lauragh during the 17th and 18th centuries. A fulacht fia (KE109-089001-) is 10m to the NE on the opposite bank of the stream.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.