Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Esk West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esk West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79010, -9.58297
- SMR number
- KE110-005----
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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 and cutaway bog, on a NW-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Esk River. A collapsed field wall (T c. 0.7m; H c. 0.4m) emerges from a turf bank at NW and extends in a SE direction for c. 150m, disappearing at intervals beneath uncut bog. A gap (Wth c. 50m) occurs after this initial stretch and, following this, another stretch of relict field wall of similar dimensions extends (L 45m) in a general S direction.
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.