Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Derra (iraghticonnor By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derra (iraghticonnor By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54508, -9.61463
- SMR number
- KE002-064----
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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
In poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Two ringforts (KE002-050/049----) 235m to SE and 190m to SSE respectively. Roughly circular-shaped area (int. diam. c. 35m; overall diam. c. 45m) defined by a ditch visible as a cropmark on 2013-2018 MapGenie aerial imagery, not visible on any edition of the OS maps. Cropmark of linear ditch radiating out from W side of cropmark may be the remains of a levelled field bank/boundary that is contemporaneous with the earthwork. Cropmark of linear ditch running E-W transects the N section of the earthwork which appears to be the remains of a later field boundary cutting across the site. This field boundary is depicted on the first edition OS six-inch map. Possibly the cropmark of a levelled ringfort identified during an assessment by the Department’s Archaeology & Built Heritage section of an application for a Licence for a forest road project (DAFM Ref. CN97549).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Sam Hughes, Archaeologist, Forestry Service, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Date of Compilation: 10 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.