Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyline West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyline West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.53474, -9.48479
- SMR number
- KE005-022----
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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 23.6m N-S, 24.6m E-W
Coolbeg Fort/Cúil Bheag (small nook). The Ballyline River runs W of this site which is situated in the corner of a field. This univallate ringfort consists of a circular inner area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The enclosing bank of earth and stone measures 1.1m above the fosse and on average .6m above the interior. The external fosse encloses the whole site except to the E where it is cut slightly by a fieldbank running N-S. The width of the fosse measures c 2m and .5m below the height of the surrounding land. The bank contains many breaks, but the main ones are to be noted NE, SW and NW, measuring c 3m, 2m and 2m respectively. The interior is at much the same level as the surrounding land, and two rectangular discolorations in the grass in the interior of the N sector could possibly mark house-sites.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 259. 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.