Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moohane,dromin (iraghticonnor By., Killehenny Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moohane,dromin (iraghticonnor By., Killehenny Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.51668, -9.65646
- SMR number
- KE004-026----
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 c 20m N-S
Situated in the middle of a large pastoral field, this site is now much levelled and has been cut to the W by a fieldbank running NE-SE and to the N by one running NW-SW. All that remains today is a low, wide semi-circular earthen bank that measures .7m externally and .4m above the interior.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 243. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.