Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacquin Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacquin Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.36791, -9.80665
- SMR number
- KE020-003----
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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 16.6m N-S, 14m E-W
This platform rath consists of a raised circular area enclosed by a wide, steep fosse. Immediately N of this site a fieldbank runs in an E-W direction and another fieldbank running N-S cuts through the fosse in the E sector. The raised area rises to a maximum of 2.3m above the enclosing fosse. The well-defined, wide, steep, U-shaped enclosing fosse is 2.2m-6m in width and on average 1.8m below the height of the surrounding land.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 675. 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.