Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullahennel South, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullahennel South
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.53401, -9.52735
- SMR number
- KE005-018----
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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 29m N-S, 24m E-W
This possible univallate rath appears on both editions of the OS maps, but on the later edition it has been cut by a fieldbank NE-SW. What remains of this site today is a raised sub-circular area .6m above the surrounding land. To the S and W a low, wide earthen bank is visible 1.2m high externally, .9m high internally and 7m wide.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 317. 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.