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
- 51.75195, -9.69905
- SMR number
- KE109-092006-
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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, c. 220m N of the Glanrastel River, on the S-facing slope of Cummeenbaun Mountain. An irregular-shaped area (c. 85m N-S; c. 65m E-W) defined by the lower courses of a roughly built, collapsed, drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.2-0.7m) which narrows from the base to the top. The lower course stones protrude above the blanket bog. The wall generally meanders throughout the area with very few straight stretches noted. Four hut sites (KE109-092001-, KE109-092002-, KE109-092003-, KE109-092005-) and one enclosure (KE109-092004-) are situated within the enclosure.
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.