What is recorded here
Carrig Island holds a semi-circular earthwork inside its ecclesiastical enclosure, marked by a scarp and a holy well buried in a southern field bank. The post-1700 boundary cuts across the eastern edge, proving the site survived changing ownership and agricultural practice. People may have shaped the soil for prayer, gathering or memory before written records appeared. The intact curve suggests continuity rather than abandonment, keeping the island's older life visible beneath later fields.
Semi-circular shaped area defined by a scarp transected at E by post-1700 field boundary with holy well (KE002-008002-) incorporated into field bank to S. Earthwork within the NW quadrant of the ecclesiastical enclosure (KE002-008003-).
See attached plan of Carrig Island ecclesiastical enclosure taken from North Kerry Survey
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 January 2022
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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