Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbrack (clanmaurice By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (clanmaurice By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.37607, -9.75064
- SMR number
- KE015-103----
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
This circular enclosure is situated N of KE015-104---- and is marked on the 1841-42 OS map. It does not appear on the later edition of 1916, though it does show up as a crop mark on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977). No surface trace survives.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 578. 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
- Souterrainunder 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.