Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyreehan East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyreehan East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.37383, -9.59861
- SMR number
- KE016-070----
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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 24m N-S, 21m E-W
Situated SE of KE016-069---- in the same field, this sub-circular univallate rath has been much levelled. A fieldbank ran along the W side of this site, but this has since been levelled. All that survives is the inner area, enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank; it is c 5m wide and .5m high. Curving in from the W bank on the interior side towards the centre and then curving to the NW is a raised area, 13.4m x 8.6m x .3m high.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 617. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.