Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tarmon East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tarmon East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.54013, -9.36556
- SMR number
- KE006-003----
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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 E-W
This site appears on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, but by the later edition it has been cut by fieldbanks. Today this site is situated in a corner of a field, with a fieldbank cutting the site to the N to E and another running immediately S to E. What remains of this site is a semi-circular earthen bank that rises to a maximum of 1.7m above the surrounding land and 1.2m above the interior. The width of the bank at the base measures c4m. A 2.4m wide gap appears in the W sector of the bank.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 324. 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.