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Enclosure

Glanrastel, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Glanrastel, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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