Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Acres (iraghticonnor By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Acres (iraghticonnor By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.56848, -9.61363
- SMR number
- KE002-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diameter 32m N-S, 34m E-W
Lisnandaff/Lios na nDamh (ringfort of the oxen). This site is situated immediately E of a small stream which flows N. It consists of a roughly circular area enclosed by a well-defined earthen bank. The maximum external height is 1.8m, the internal height is 1m and the width of the bank at the base is c4m.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 147. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.